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...
Politics
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?
Calling Chicago
So I was on WBEZ’s Worldview show – (a.k.a., NPR in Chicago) earlier today. Here’s the audio clip:
The opposition will not be televised
So I really like the way Miguel Angel Santos writes. In the barren wasteland of the spirit that is El Universal’s OpEd page, he stands apart for the...
Radio silence in Amazonas
This article from daily Tal Cual offers some details about the aftermath of the communicational hegemony’s recent offensive… deep down in Amazonas State. In the last month, CONATEL...
Maduro repeals the Laws of Physics
Look at this photo closely. Does this look to you like a drug plane that’s been shot down by an F16 fighter jet?! Because that’s the crazy story...
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