The Petrostate, Visualized
This is just the coolest visualization tool ever. Venezuelan Exports in 1995 Venezuelan Exports in 2010: (These static images don’t really do the visualization-platform justice, you have to...
Politics
Clean as a whistle
So according to Transparency International, Venezuela is NOT the most corrupt country in Latin America. If I’m understanding this poll correcty, people were asked if they had paid...
The Depth of Those Caracas 2002/Cairo 2013 Parallels
Reading this, it’s hard to shake the feeling that what Egypt is going through now is some bizarre alternate-universe version of what we would’ve faced in April 2002...
Observers get a taste of chavismo
The international observers from Spain’s Instituto de Altos Estudios Europeos just came out with a damning report regarding the Venezuelan election. Basically, they think there are numerous elements...
Omaigá Chronicles
Entiéndelo: Venezuela te está trolleando… What’s chilling is that that wasn’t even the worst of yesterday’s session. WTF of the year goes to this monstruosity.
Capriles drops a "C" bomb
Henrique Capriles held a press conference yesterday, which he duly posted on his new Internet TV Channel (is there such a thing?) capriles.tv. In it, he let slip...
Dystopias
Panfleto Negro is running a Dystopia-writing contest. Prize: 100 euros, via paypal. Great fun! Check out my entry. Then write one of your own!
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
So here’s one thing that’s changed radically since the Comandante Supremo went to meet his maker: Politics got dull. Way boring. So boring, that it makes writing my super-tedious...
An Idiot's Guide to Meeting the Pope
By the time you read this, President Nicolás Maduro will have arrived at the Vatican to meet his Holiness Pope Francis. I. Can’t. Wait! How-oh-how will he screw...
Venezuela's funniest legislative videos
And the trolling continues…
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