#9N Commeth
Tomorrow, Venezuela will see something it’s never quite seen before: a proper peer-to-peer, no-visible-head, Istambul/Sao Paulo style 2.0 street protest. It’s hard to know just how successful the...
Politics
The Communicational Hegemony Cookbook
Step 1. Invite journalists to your military base to cover your revolutionary leg-of-pork giveaway. Step 2. Let your giveaway turn into a complete fiasco, with skirmishes breaking out...
Buh bye Eudomar...we hardly knew ya... RE-UPDATED
RE-UPDATE: Gah! I had this one horribly wrong. Eudomar stays on as head of BCV even as he concurrently becomes Venezuela’s IMF governor.
Bajadita Chronicles
Tell us more about how Venezuela can’t possibly face an economic apocalypse, Mark… BTW, fun isn’t it how inflation numbers have to be leaked by BCV flunkies these...
Sounds Like They've Thought This One Through
Now Nicolás Maduro wants to spread anti-aircraft guns through the hillside slums around Caracas. What could possibly go wrong with that?
Plastic Imitating Plastic
For readers more accustomed to sipping gingerly from the champagne flute of misogyny in First World public spheres, there’s something jarring about having to chug from the fire-hydrant...
Eschernomics
Expressing frustration at recent policy failures, President Maduro announced today a new initiative to regulate the process of water current formation, as part of a drive to finally...
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’...
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...
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