Stand Corrected
Correction: El Nacional sneakily got ahead of me by running a correction for the article I accused them of not correcting, mooting pretty much this whole post. The...
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Outbreak of Sanity at Military Intelligence
Bogota’s El Tiempo has obtained a leaked copy of the Venezuelan Military Intelligence Directorate (DIM)’s strategy vis-à-vis Colombia’s presidential election. The thing is…remarkably sane. Featuring the kind of cool-headed...
Por eso es que estamos como estamos, part 72,000,000
According to El Nacional, over the last 11 years, prices have gone up 733%, while remunerations have risen just 571%. Ergo, since 733-571 is 162…purchasing power has fallen...
De repente se nos olvidó...
It’s now been a month and a bit since the first and – AFAIK – the last broadcast of "Suddenly…Chávez", the "new" Chávez radio show launched with such fanfare...
Ñ Liberation Front
It’s a pet peeve, sure, but would it kill the BBC to put a tilde over the Ñ in Sebastián Piñera’s name?
Samizdat, meet YouTube. YouTube, this is Samizdat.
http://www.youtube.com/v/Q69MCevzmAk&hl=en_US&fs=1& The Chávez Expropriation song. Brought to you by – who else? – the Borderline Rat.
You have three guesses, and the first two don't count
So lets all try to guess which country Alvaro Uribe could possibly be referring to when he says he has evidence that "a foreign country that wishes to...
When a bloody nose is a sign of progress
As everyone knows by now, a meeting of the Opposition’s "Unity Roundtable" in Carabobo state ended in blows last week as various local factions’ frustration over negotiations ahead of...
Comments board goes insane in five... four... three...
So, guess who puts food on the Palin family table? If you’re Venezuelan, you do! http://www.youtube.com/v/N2XzGTeOI0g&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 How does that work out? As with Kevin Tocineta, there are six...
The FARC-ETA Farcette for Beginners
Why can’t Spain anger Hugo Chávez, even if he’s aiding Basque terrorists? My TNR article this week tries to make sense of the little farce for the uninitiated....
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