Things I know
The next few days are full of uncertainty, but there are a few things I know. 1. Whatever we do, however much we restrain ourselves, as much as...
Politics
Bocaranda's freakin' me out now...
Over the last couple of years, Caracas gossip-monger Nelson Bocaranda has made up (partly) for his long and inglorious record of getting sensitive stories wrong by, miraculously, seeming...
Our long, national psychodrama continues
Taking advantage of the long weekend, I was going to sit down and write one of several posts lurking in my head. There is one on education, another...
Preparing for the wrong conflict
The new Defense Minister Diego Molero Bellavia visited this week the new missile complex of Paraguaná (located near the Josefa Camejo Airport) and told reporters it will be...
República Chavista de Venezuela
The level of sycophancy chavista figureheads are displaying lately is worthy of psychiatric evaluations. Reuters’ Daniel Wallis paints a picture, Punctuated by occasional bulletins on the president’s condition, government...
Crystal Ball Chronicles
28 December, 2016 – CARACAS From his hospital bed in Havana, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez decreed a raft of new revenue-raising measures to deal with the country’s chronic...
A closer look at Maduro's superpowers
Press reports about Nicolás Maduro’s new powers on economic issues don’t really do justice to what is going on. When you scratch beneath the surface and actually read...
Driving the nation
The latest Official Gazette informs us that the Vice-President (and appointed succesor) Nicolás Maduro has been given broad new powers in economic matters. Those duties include overseeing the...
Get over it!
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing, woe-is-me, apocalyptic writing about last Sunday’s results. I find this curious since, as Iñaki and others clearly point out, the results were...
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