The capital of Cumaná is Petare
BBC News has a video on the efforts to reduce crime in Petare. Reporter Will Grant toured with the Sucre police, and the piece is boiler-plate, a missed...
Life
Aggravation Without an Upside
It takes a moment to digest the chart Setty puts up in his latest post. Overall, the Electricity Rationing measures the government imposed in the first half of the...
Reflections on an interview I only sort of half watched
Oh, admit it: you didn’t watch the whole thing either. Who would!? Chavez’s blood pressure raising hour-long tussle with the BBC’s Stephen Sackur never risked showing us anything we...
Sometimes a bankrupt bank is only a bankrupt bank
By now you’ve heard the news: that bank that the half owner of Globovision runs got taken over. The bank is Banco Federal, the guy is Nelson Mezerhane and, for once,...
Once every four years
It always goes like this. Every four years. I think I’m too old for it. I tell myself it’s all just a bunch of marketing and hype, anyway....
Going on the record (UPDATED AGAIN)
With just under 24 hours to go, I have one word to say to you all: Serbia.. Slovenia. Slovakia. Remember where you heard it first.
Lights on...! (por ahora)
Hugo Chávez just announced the suspension of enforced blackouts across the country. The rationing scheme was triggered by Venezuela’s electricity crisis. The suspension coincides with an increase in...
Blog Hiatus
Drogba, Mikel, Pirlo, Ballack and now…Quico. (Fell off my damn bike and broke my arm…and JC is on vacation! No more blogging until further notice.)
Dando bandazos...
By my watch, it’s 6:23 a.m. in Caracas. The Central Bank’s new solution to all our Forex woes – the "Transaction System with Foreign Currency Assets" (SITME) – is...
Annualized May Food Inflation: 47.6%
INE’s May inflation report is out now. The headline number, 2.6% is a lot better than April’s, but still high: on an annualized basis, it’s still-climbing, and now...
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