Rewarding "Ch"ailure
Argenis Chávez failed miserably as the head of the National Electric Corporation (CORPOELEC), so he was forced to leave. But a short time later, he publicly criticized the...
Politics
The first casualty
(Something about this short piece by Héctor Torres really touched me. I guess it stirred up the conservative that lives within me. I’m taking the liberty to translate...
Dark Days for Panfleto Negro
Adriana Pérez Bonilla puts her finger on something raw and real and terrifying and simultaneously hilarious and not even a little bit funny in this Panfleto piece. It’s...
E-Ration Book is D.O.A.
Five days after its announcement, the Electronic Food Rationing program which was supposed to be implemented in Maracaibo on Monday is over even before it started. Today, Nicolás...
Three and a half years, some rapes, beatings and a forced abortion later...
…it looks like Judge María Lourdes Afiuni will be released later on this morning. Calling what happened to this woman a “detention” amounts to lexical complicity in an...
Shadow foreign policy
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I discuss the opposition’s new diplomatic offensive. The value added: These trips are part of a new phase for the Venezuelan opposition....
The silver lining
One of the few good things about the Bolivarian Involution is the fact that so many talented people (Jon Lee Anderson, Mario Vargas Llosa) take interest in Venezuela....
Six months on, do we miss him yet?
Back in December, just before news broke of El Comandante’s final, doomed Cuban surgery, I wrote this post, Well, guess what: none of the guys who’ll be fighting...
All in the family
At an emotional memorial service for the three-month anniversary of Hugo Chávez’s death, we see, placing their hands on the hallowed grave of the Comandante Supremo, in no...
Hugo Chávez: paragon of journalism
Today, Hugo Chávez won the 2013 Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award, three months after his passing to the day. The jury’s citation credits him for: “… the creation...
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