SIBCI's Syria
A popular, patriotic government, supported by a near unanimity of the international community, besieged on all sides by blood thirsty terrorists, facing imperial aggression. A blameless government scrambling...
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Empty Doll of the Bourgeoisie Chronicles
Take a minute to check out the official website of Venezuela’s National Assembly just now. Trust me, it’s worth it. (In case they take it down later, there’s...
The Surinamese friend
Dino Bouterse, son of Suriname’s President Dési Bouterse was detained last week in Panama and then extradited to the United States to face charges of drug-smuggling and possession...
“I moved here two years ago because I wanted to get deeper into witchcraft."
Bloomberg scores the Quote of the Day in this eye-opening exposé of Caracas’s deepening water problems. The water from Lake Mariposa, polluted by sacrifices and garbage from a...
We're gonna party like it's 1938
Part of what’s so saddening about the Venezuelan government’s increasing use of “sabotage” as a catch-all, evidence-free excuse for the breakdown of various bits of the socialist order...
Is this the single most ignorant major news outlet story on Venezuela this year?
Memo to the BBC: Looking at shortages in Venezuela and blaming the smugglers is a little bit like looking at a gunshot victim crumpling on the floor and...
La hegemonía va por dentro
Almost a month ago, we had an unusual case of self-censorship inside the State Media System (SIBCI): the main TV channel VTV took off the air the late...
Why doesn't the opposition say more about Syria?
Nicolás Maduro is highly supportive of Syria’s dictatorial mass-murderer Bashar el Assad. He has sent subsidized diesel to Syria. At one point, there was even a nonstop Caracas-Damascus...
Magnicidio-o-meter
In case you missed it, the government announced earlier last week that they stopped another assassination plot against Nicolás Maduro, This one included two Colombian hitmen (now in custody)...
Globomyopia
Boris Muñoz is characteristically excellent in his treatment of the fall of Globovision to the Dark Side, in a post that covers all the story’s basics. And yet,...
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