Public blackmail as State policy
The President of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, is a man who doesn’t beat around the bush. Case in point: his recent announcement that opposition legislators who refuse...
Politics
Burocracia o nada! (Updated)
Because having more than thirty Ministers, six Vice-Presidents and six Regional Coordinators was not enough for his Cabinet, Nicolas Maduro has now named three brand new Presidential Commisioners...
Once bitten, twice shy
Maduro wants dialogue. He wants to sit down and have a chat with the murderous, fascist, imperialist, anti-homeland, drug-snorting, baby-eating, racist, mysoginist haters of the poor he calls...
2013 "results" by parish
Long time CC reader and contributor Dorothy has a really cool map … for those of us into this sort of thing. Enjoy.
It's war
When the opposition first claimed fraud, back in the Recall Referendum of 2004, it had very little to go on. Quickly, we were split into two camps: those...
Workplace bullying as public policy
In the last few days, mutiple press reports indicate that some public sector workers have been fired and others have suffered harassment because of their political stance after...
Maduro's first cabinet: the more things change, the more they stay the same
Nicolás Maduro presented last night the list of ministers that will join him in his “government team”in cadena nacional. The full list is composed of at least more...
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