Esequibo Rift Update
One week ago, Nicolas Maduro announced during his weekly TV show that he would address the National Assembly on June 25th, in order to present what he calls...
Politics
As one UN test ends, another one begins
The Venezuelan State is once again under review this week as the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee will monitor the country’s performance on civil and political rights, based...
A Bloody Mess
On May 28th Venezuela celebrated the International Menstrual Hygiene Day. On that day, we embraced: …the opportunity to create awareness of the right of women and girls to hygienically manage their...
MUD, the Sausage Fest
Yesterday, when Tibi announced that they were going for “full on gender equality” in the candidate lists… I cackled. You know why? Because we’ve known this was coming...
Import Substitution, only without the "Substitution" bit
Reuters’ has this intriguing investigative piece on the weird dynamics of Chinese investment in Venezuela. The way this seems to work is: A Chinese company announces it’s going to...
I am Tibi, hear me roar
Tibisay Lucena, the head of Venezuela’s National Elections Council, has been called many things before: a die-hard chavista; a machiavellian tool of the revolution; a sensible technician; a lover...
In case of a water landing, your CADIVI cupo may be used as a flotation device
Something about this story is…just not right: Despite currency woes in Venezuela, a new low-cost airline plans to launch daily flights between Fort Lauderdale and the Venezuelan capital...
Diosdado's guessing game
It’s been a week since the Diosdado/Shannon picture show and we’ve read many hypothesis over what had to happen to get that photo opp. Both Jackson Diehl and...
Breaking: Legislative Elections called for December 6
In an ill-humored, defensive speech, brimming with reproaches against her critics, CNE-head Tibisay Lucena called Legislative Elections for December 6th. The speech was a remarkable piece of wounded-ego...
Making Sense of the Shannon-Diosdado Confab
Washington Post op-ed columnist Jackson Diehl has the first comprehensible account of what the effing eff Senior State Department official Thomas Shannon was doing in Haiti a week...
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