Trusted Users This Week
So the final little bug in the comments software has now been worked out, and the Trusted User system is now running as it should. 37 registered users...
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At 6:50 p.m. in Santiago, it's all over
Juan will get to the politics of all this later. For now, I’d just like to point this out: it’s not even 7 p.m. on election night in...
Which bolivars are you revaluing, exactly?!
So Chávez is now boasting that, contrary to all appearances, the "exchange rate adjustment" announced last week – you know, the one the imperialist media reported as a...
Hugo Chávez: “I am a Marxist”
http://www.youtube.com/v/WSwKdNZj_HM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=es_ES&feature=player_embedded&fs=1
Recadivi reductios itself ad absurdum
The sheer absurdity of having your primary needs determined by government fiat only really hits home when you get down to the details. For instance, chavismo has decided...
With Chávez micromanaging the electricity crisis, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, if he didn’t own the electricity crisis before, he does now. In a virtuoso display of government-via-La Hojilla last night, Hugo Chávez fired the Electricity Minister for...
Chávez hearts JPMorgan
If any final confirmation of the fundamental lack of seriousness of the chavista project were needed, VTV’s ecstatic reception of JPMorgan’s decision to upgrade Venezuela’s bond ratings surely...
Begging 4 it
For the second time in a week, Hugo Chávez "challenged" the opposition to collect signatures and try to recall him. This is bizarre even for Chávez. A recall...
Haiti Appeal
We interrupt our regularly scheduled program of trashing the Venezuelan government to ask you to consider donating to MSF’s Haiti Earthquake Response. Thanks.
The chickens coming home to the gallinero vertical to roost...
Throughout the last decade, even as I’ve worked feverishly and hoped ardently for an early end to the Chavez disaster, a dark thought has haunted me: what if...
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