Outfoxing the Ingrates
So by now you’ve heard that our Foxxy Sports Minister, Alejandra Benítez, along with (not so foxy) Bolívar Governor Francisco Rangel, reeeeeally wanted Ciudad Bolívar to become the next big Green...
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What Migbelis Castellanos taught me about work ethic
Over at Foreign Policy, I talk about how Miss Venezuela has become an oasis where hard work and (somewhat) honest competition are rewarded. The value added, with some...
'Toy Picao Chronicles: An open letter to Tibisay Lucena
by FoB Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez Last week, electoral authorities in Azerbaijan – a small, oil rich, nation nestled lovingly between steadfast Bolivarian allies Iran and Russia – enthusiastically announced the landslide...
la vacance de monsieur padrón
Resulta que a Leonardo Padrón se le ocurrió ir a Playa El Agua: Dos kilómetros más allá conseguimos un mejor sitio. Se me acerca un vendedor de los...
Edgardo Parra's fall from grace
The incumbent Chavista mayor of Valencia, Edgardo Parra, was arrested last night by SEBIN agents for his possible involvement in a corruption case. Days ago, the office of a company...
Viernes Afrodescendiente, Pluricultural y Multiétnico UPDATED
SIBCI has been heavily trailing the “Economic Measures” to be announced by new Economic Veep Rafael Ramírez later today. Logic suggests that if they were going to announce...
Omnishambles Chronicles
Nicolás Maduro had barely finished making his big Foreign Exchange Control system announcement yesterday before he was in damage control mode. Having initially announced that a sum roughly equivalent...
Cesppa, Cesna: Both are the same, yet different...
How’s this for an Orwelian agency title? The Strategic Center for the Security and Protection of the Fatherland (CESPPA) , tha thas been just set up by decree...
The Habilit-ation condemnation overreaction
Nicolás Maduro went to the National Assembly to ask for special powers, i.e., the ability to rule by decree. He doesn’t yet have the votes, but it sounds...
The worse it gets, the better
Writing around the time of the Russian hyperinflation (1919), Lenin had this to say… Hundreds of thousands of ruble notes are being issued daily by our treasury. This...
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