Now more than ever
Katy says: It seems like the thing everyone wants to know about is the new Vargas Viaduct. Well, it’s fine, a perfectly normal, ordinary piece of engineering that...
Life
Katy does Caracas
Quico says: As I write this, my partner-in-blog Katy is airborne and Caracas-bound, for a few days that should yield some top-grade blogging. Do you have any questions...
Boo for beeb bashing
Quico says: Et tu, Katy? Jumping onto the facile bandwagon of BBC bashing? Ugh. Just because an outlet doesn’t sound like Martha Colomina does not make them cryptochavistas....
Damn British imperialists...
Katy says: Something isn’t right in the revolution when even the BBC criticizes the government. The final quote is priceless: “Bureaucracy, inefficiency and corruption are evils that weaken...
Willian Lara wouldn't recognize a public service broadcast if it bit him in the ass
Quico says: Every so often I catch myself almost thinking the government has a point: Venezuela has not been well served by its media culture over the years....
The best on the RCTV closing
Katy says: Alex Beech’s post on the RCTV closing represents the clearest debunking of the government’s ludicrous position. It’s a tour de force.
Lights and shadows
Katy says: The recent awakening of Venezuela’s student movement has been hailed in the media and the opposition blogosphere. For good reason: there’s lots to like in the...
The revolution eating its own?
Katy says: This was interesting – Tobías Nóbrega, long considered one of the Revolution’s, ahem, most “productive” figure-heads, has been charged with a list of corruption charges (read...
Now THIS is an important issue
Katy says: A troubling news item today: chavista student Robert Serra went to the Prosecutor General’s office to demand an investigation into the website Noticiero Digital, for presumably...
Off-Topic
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