Austin time
I’m thrilled to have been invited to be a moderator at the Plan País Conference in Austin, Texas this weekend. Plan País is a yearly conference in which Venezuelan students in...
Politics
Two can play the CARICOM game
The 7th Summit of the Americas is just around the corner, and public attention will be focused on U.S. President Barack Obama, who will carry a huge diplomatic...
Mining for news
Don’t miss Efecto Cocuyo’s take on illegal mining in Venezuela’s South. Thanks to intrepid reporters working for Discovery Max, we can witness the devastation that illegal mining is causing in the...
#Odebrechting - an Easter egg in the Brazilian media
Dilma Rousseff, the current President of Brazil, is leading a crumbling government, what with her poll ratings in the tweens. It’s always fun to see a chavista ally eating...
Your signature or your life
A few years ago, Hugo Chávez enacted one of his most vile yet brutally effective political strategies: the Lista Tascón. When the opposition began collecting signatures to recall his...
Alternative Twitter-verse
You probably know about the strange case of the fake child kidnapping that has served as an excuse for Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega Diaz to propose to regulate social...
Live-blogging "la cola"
It’s MY day. It’s not my birthday. And Saint Anne’s Feast Day is July 26th. It’s my day because, on Tuesdays, Venezuelans with ID numbers ending in 2 and...
Daniella
In generations to come, historians are going to have such a wealth of material to pick over as they try to make sense of Venezuela post 1999 they’ll barely...
Sobremesa Chronicles
Some of you know that I live in a house as the sole male surrounded by four wonderful ladies. Yet as a man happily subdued, I have been trained to...
Then they came for Twitter, and there was no one left to tweet for me...
On Tuesday, a rumour swept Caracas that a child had been kidnapped by a stranger in – depending on the version of the story you heard – either Petare...
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