Five Surprising Facts About the Post-Chavez Era
Some things, we expected: in a dozen interviews in the days after Chávez died, I kept repeating that Maduro wouldn’t have any of the three key assets – money,...
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Unwitting victims
Yesterday Nicolás Maduro expelled three diplomats from the US Embassy. This was all a temper tantrum, a diversion based on false accusations as we all know. But you...
The only thing we have to be anxious about is anxiety itself
Does the thought of First Lady Combattant Cilia Flores seeding relatives all through the upper echelons of the Venezuelan state render you anxious? See, that right there is...
#QQSM, or rather, #QQRebuscarse
Quico’s video is downright depressing. Instead, this cool takedown of Venezuela’s version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” by Gabriel Núñez and Elena Sánchez, is comedy gold....
The kind of video Nicolas Maduro doesn't want you to see...
I don’t know about you, but for me, Nicolás is right: watching this made me deeply anxious. [Hat tip: mah sugar daddy…]
To control shortages, ignorance is bliss (Updated)
The government is pulling out all the stops to contain the wave of shortages, from importing our way out of this mess to militarizing supermarket check-outs. But Nicolás...
La hegemonía va por dentro, continued
Outside the realm of State media, there’s probably no better place to explore the state of grass-roots Chavismo than the alternative news and opinion website Aporrea. The site...
An 18-Wheeler Named Venezuela
Some things, I feel, need to be said in Spanish. In cases like that, I take to PanfletoNegro. Desde el día que nos llevamos por delante ese puente...
Una de Hormigas y Parchitas
Kudos to El Nacional for writing up some of the detail of (one of) the megabucks scams at Bandes (a.k.a., the Economic and Social Development Bank, a.k.a., the place-where-both-our-current-and-former-Central-Bank-heads...
Dear @Forbes, do you realize what @HilaryKramer is using your brand for?!
Setty in full rant mode is a force of nature. A thing of beauty. A real joy. Do not miss his epic takedown of the appalling Derwick fluff...
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