Your tax bolívars at work
Caracas woke up with these posters all over town. The ID number on the posters corresponds to “Fundación Cultural 23 de Enero Simón Bolívar.” Yes, it’s a cultural...
Politics
Viral Now
How To get into the Metro – The Venezuelan Way This is the second greatest video from the Valles del Tuy commuter train – after the greatest cadena...
Sabotage-o-meter
Nicolás Maduro keeps talking about an alleged “economic sabotage” against the country. Government ministers toe the line and blame the “S” word for almost everything (from the electric...
Cancillería blues
After four years without a salary increase, the workers of the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MPPRE) said “enough!” this week and staged a loud protest outside the Ministry’s Administrative...
Words-fail-me Chronicles
Nicolas Maduro creates a brand new Vice-Ministry for the “Supreme Social Happiness of the Venezuelan People”. No, this is not from the Chigüire Bipolar. This is 100% real...
Is Maduro really that desperate?
Sure sounds like it. He has designated December 8th, the day of the upcoming local election in Venezuela, as a “Day of Loyalty and Love for Chávez...
Star power
I had never seen this 1998 conversation between then-candidate Hugo Chávez and the formidable, recently deceased Oscar Yanes. I picked it up through my Facebook feed, from the...
A territorial mess
Back to basics: according to the Constitution of 1999, Venezuela is now organized into 23 States (which are divided in 335 Municipalities), a Capital District and a small group...
A Storm in a Tweet Cup?!
So who was the mystery, high-ranking patient whose supposed emergency transfer to Caracas’s Military Hospital was so secret it hasn’t even been denied yet? Was there an actual...
Election? What election?
It's now less than two months out from a Venezuelan election, and the mood is decidedly non-electoral. Why is this so? Should we care?
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