Habemus Landrieu-gate
OK, so it took a few days, but finally a major political news outlet in the US is following the scandal involving Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu and her close, intimate...
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Venezuela is in a recession. Again.
The Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL for its acronym in Spanish) published its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2014. After downloading the report, the...
Evil in the Bayou
This U.S. Senator just blocked the targeted sanctions on Venezuelan human rights violators because she loves CITGO money too much.
What's in Henrique Capriles' iPad that is so important?
This blistering play-by-play account of the inner workings of last week’s MUD meeting is mandatory reading (in Spanish, sorry). In it, practically all the main players in the...
Weekend Recap
Bad Ink Caracas We couldn’t help ourselves, and had to join in on the free tattoo story. In the end, the whole event made sense to us when...
The unsafe, expensive, and illegal adventures of Cheverito
The Venezuelan Ministry of Torism has just released the Adventures of Cheverito, a comic that revolves around an eco-friendly Venezuelan – Cheverito (how many meetings did it take to...
Decepciones a la holandesa, por @dlansberg
(Apologies for the Spanish post. Hace unos días, la misteriosa plana mayor de El Universal le comunicó a varios de sus columnistas de opinión que ya no publicarían...
Chávez eres (ta)tú
Anabella and Barbara tackled the wackiness of Chavez’s fandom a few weeks ago with a brief post on the man’s signature and all new typeface. Early this morning...
One Giant Leap for Oppo Political Culture
Ramón Guillermo Aveledo, Secretary General of the Opposition umbrella organization, MUD, has just announced he is leaving his post. In a developed country setting, this would be unremarkable....
Playing Hardball on the CNE appointments
The opposition MUD National Assembly caucus brokered a smart political operation that may prevent chavismo, for the first time since who-knows-when, from just railroading die-hard partisans into the CNE board unopposed. So, just for today, I'm being nice to MUD.
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