My so-called polity
I guess we can add this to the list of impossible things we’ll have to explain to our grandchildren somehow one day… Faced with the very real possibility...
Politics
Tío Conejo Chronicles: are Venezuelans really hostile to Foreigners?
A guest post from Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez Last week, the World Economic Forum released its “Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report” for 2013. The study rated 140 countries on various...
"Juan Cristobal is exactly right." -Diosdado Cabello
National Assembly chairman Diosdado Cabello’s bizarre rant yesterday baffled and amazed me. Diosdado expressly cedes Juan’s point – yup, we’re crazy – in language poised exquisitely between Trash Talk and...
Vote for me. The other guys are crazy.
I have to admit, I’m more than a little turned off by the current Presidential campaign. Part of my frustrechera lies with the fact that, while Henrique Capriles...
Venetur Hotels: where politics come first
Tourism Minister Alejandro Fleming ordered via Twitter that Venetur (State-owned company in charge of tourism services, including 14 hotels across the country) not to hire “…anyone who makes...
Suspended Animation
In Venezuela, during this strange inter-regnum between Chávez and what comes next, beef and cement have become privileges. But these days, the mother of all luxuries is certainty. Just ask Andrea. Andrea...
Spoiled greens
SICAD has just been rolled out as a panacea for foreign currency scarcity in Venezuela. But if descriptions of the bureaucratic mess involved in obtaining dollars at auction are...
My Interview on Italian Radio is Now Online
Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Thanks to Rome’s Eco Radio and Clarissa Maracci for this. Great fun!
Miranda will have two governors
Remember the parallel governorships scheme, set up by the central government in Lara, Zulia and Caracas to re-route financial transfers to the regions through Chavista hands, bypassing elected...
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