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...
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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…
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...
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...
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