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...
Politics
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...
Face-off: what a novel concept!
I’m officially petitioning for a moratorium on every sort of “we’re so screwed because it’s an uneven playing field” speak. All this fatalistic chatter is old and tired,...
Our sources shall remain anonymous
After last week’s explosive leak of Maduro’s secret strategy memo, we now come across another scandalous bit of inside information from the Comando Hugo Chávez camp: the campaign...
Orwellianismo Endógeno
Yesterday afternoon was spent watching the procession to take Chávez’s mortal remains to what’s now known as the Cuartel de la Montaña on State TV. The experience left me...
R.I.P. and BTW there's a half-off sale on men's briefs!
Ever since Wednesday of last week, the Obituaries sections of the main Venezuelan newspapers look more like the yellow pages than they do a place of bereavement. Local...
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