Annals of Anti-Imperialism
Tal día como hoy, 46 years ago, Venezuelan territory was actually physically invaded by a foreign power for the first time since independence in the last 100 years. Prohibido...
Politics
Just a chat between a leader and his fellow citizens
After a month of pot-banging and PR snafus, Nicolás Maduro is not taking any more chances. So when he decided to meet with community leaders from Baruta and...
Frogs Inside the Globovisión Pot Agree: "The water's only the teensiest bit warm here, come swim!"
Following the sale of Globovision, the last remaining critical TV broadcaster in Venezuela, to (reputedly) regime-connected investors, there was widespread fear in the opposition that a new and...
Communicational hegemony vs. copyright
Because using music of a videogame as the soundtrack for a cadena nacional wasn’t enough, State TV channel VTV decided to use “Detalles”, one of the greatest hits...
Things I learned watching last night's cadena (UPDATED)
Last night’s cadena nacional presenting the regime’s “evidence” that the opposition is to blame for getting their faces kicked in at the National Assembly is the stuff of legend. Here’s...
Faced with old-style dictatorship, your only real choice is old-style resistance
What we need now from Capriles is coherence between discourse and action. Because, at the moment, he’s caught in the same incoherent stance Miguel Henrique Otero’s sophomoric Comando...
Dragged Kicking-and-Screaming Into Clandestinity
The events in the Assembly today were deeply shocking. With dissident congresspeople now not merely barred from speaking, not merely deprived of their salaries but repeatedly physically assaulted, ...
Why go to the Circus when you have the AN?
While Maduro and his train of flunkies were busy governing watching a private Cirque du Soleil showing (and ticket holders are lined up out in the rain), the regularly...
The fate of Lácteos Los Andes
More than five years ago, Hugo Chávez announced that the government bought private dairy company Lácteos Los Andes, making it part of his “food sovereignty” plan, along with other...
Tim Tracy and the April connection
New Interior Minister Miguel Rodríguez Torres made public last week details about what he calls the “April connection”: an alleged plot where student groups were financed by an...
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