A new kind of draft
Recluta… there’s a word that brings memories. (In most, if not all cases, not happy ones). For a country that’s gone over 150 years without a proper shootin’...
Politics
Considerando
Presidential Decree No. 541, published in yesterday’s Official Gazette, is one for the ages. It contains not one, not two, not three, but nine (9!) poorly written, exceedingly...
An argument full of holes
Re. the opposition’s strategy to get out the vote, Quico said: “The reason people were able to vote with cédulas chimbas, or to do coercive votos asistidos, is...
The Energy Relationship Nobody Talks About
Did you know that last year Venezuela shipped more oil to India than to China? I sure didn’t! And did you know if Venezuela sold the oil it...
Fix your collar, @hcapriles
There’s a lot to like in this expertly-made video. The message has been trimmed of all its fat. It gets to the point quickly, concretely. Capriles makes a...
Watch and Learn, Muhammad Yunus
This is how we do Microcredit, Barlovento style… El viceministro de Política Interior, José Vicente Rangel Ávalos, anunció el 7 de septiembre esa instalación y dijo que tres...
Must Read
Is it just me, or are Alberto Barrera Tyszka’s columns in El Nacional quickly establishing themselves as the most lucid take on the through-the-looking-glass world of post-chavismo? Personally,...
How can you tell apart a cops' funeral cortege from a motorizado funeral cortege?
Turns out, in Monagas, you can’t… Maturín.- Una situación de completa anarquía se vive desde tempranas horas de la mañana de este jueves, cuando funcionarios de la Policía de...
Arreaza in Outright Self-Parody Mode
Today, there are 1 trillion bolivars in circulation in Venezuela. A year ago, there were Bs.583 billion. That, right there, is pretty much all you need to know to...
Halloween Special, cont.
Doubling down… And…am I the only one annoyed that these people clearly don’t know what the word ‘trilogy’ means? [Hat tip: Emi.]
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