Prannation Redux
So, when the Sabaneta prison “pran” (I never know how to translate that…”prison gang dictator”?) and the Sabaneta prison warden disagree, who gets his way? Care to venture a...
Politics
"We're not going to sully ourselves in the cesspool of the government camp" says Capriles as he hands out free goodies to his supporters...
Yesterday’s Capriles event in Rio Chico, narrowcast live on Capriles.tv, has more or less completed the full-body existential funk I’ve been inhabiting recently. Talking to a small audience...
I Got the Eudomar Blues
Last week, when Eudomar Tovar was named Central Bank head, lots was said about the new breed of Merentes-backed “pragmatists” in the nation’s top economic policy-making posts, with Tovar...
Como va viniendo vamos mintiendo...
Mindful of the need to establish credibility in his new, high-profile job, BCV-president Eudomar Santos Tovar wasted no time telling a massive, disprovable-with-a-five-second-google-search whopper of a lie today....
The government's poll numbers are garish (now that it doesn't matter)
Credit where credit is due. People say chavismo is terrible at planning, but it just isn’t true: the double-time dismantling of what was left of Venezuela’s democratic institutions...
The fate of Lácteos Los Andes, cont.
Back in April, State-owned dairy Lácteos Los Andes was in pretty critical shape, according to its workers. Almost four months later, it got worse. Company-staff held a protest on...
The roadmap, part II: welcome to the world
(This is the second in a series of posts on where Venezuela stands on the list of characteristics shared by high-growth economies, as highlighted in The Growth Report;...
Nineteen Eighty-Four on the Cheap
Damian Pratt takes a moment to commemorate the one year anniversary of that epic cadena in Caruachi last year – you remember, the one where Chávez’s handpicked audience...
Death at a maternity
Once in a while, the bizarro-meter in Venezuela reaches such elevated heights, you have to catch your breath. Case in point: this short Globovisión news item on the...
Socialism vs. workers
More bad news for the government: union bosses are sick of business as usual. This story by Ana Díaz quotes several left-wing union heads dissing the government. The...
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