Ni pa eso Chronicles
Turns out Abdel el-Zabayar, the pro-Chávez Syrian-Venezuelan member of the National Assembly who shipped off to Syria to fight on the government’s side as part of some messed up International...
Politics
Occam's Razor on Sabotage
Willie Neuman’s piece in the New York Times today on Maduro’s sabotage-obsession is a pretty good primer for people who haven’t been following the story. It bothers me...
Superman Maracucho
This gave me the lulz…
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...
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...
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