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...
Politics
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...
A hat tip and an ear-tug
We already had a King of Re-Bar, and now we have an Aluminium Tsar. It’s great to see the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad’s Joseph Poliszuk really digging into the affairs of...
Adventures in birtherism
The Venezuelan birther movement started out on the fringes of political discussion. It was a subject few people dared to touch, and when they did, it was a...
Quién dijo que aquí no se hace periodismo de investigación?
What’s that you say? You wanna mug Mr. Alcasa? ‘mafraid you’ll have to get in line behind Mr. Glencore here. Take it away, Clavel Rangel, Katherine Pennacchio, Marianela Balbi and...
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