Your move, Luisa Estella
The Interamerican Court on Human Rights has just announced that Leopoldo López should be allowed to run for President. Supposedly, these rulings are binding in Venezuela. No idea...
The Interamerican Court on Human Rights has just announced that Leopoldo López should be allowed to run for President. Supposedly, these rulings are binding in Venezuela. No idea...
From an AVN story about a meeting Hugo Chávez held yesterday with the Chinese: “Chávez … explained that Chinese banks give out loans to Venezuela and, in exchange,...
Venezuela’s electoral council has announced that next year’s Presidential elections have been moved up about two months. Instead of the traditional December date, the elections next year will...
Sorry for not posting for a while, but I’ve been pretty overwhelmed with life stuff. I guess we can start a thread discussing the latest from the rumor...
Sorry for the lull in posting. Life happens, this week in the form of moving house: always a harrowing ordeal. (Juan, on his end, had some lame excuse...
Don’t miss this engaging, Deep-Think piece in Rebelión by Jesse Chacón (or rather, I suspect, by the Spanish grad student who ghost-writes his columns). In rare, intello form,...
There are two topics I normally steer away from: Wikileaks, and Eva Golinger. The former, because it is essentially a boatload of gossip, and people fascinated by it...
One of Venezuela’s many under-reported stories is the series of troubles in state-owned petrochemical giant PEQUIVEN. A loyal reader has been writing me for months, talking about the...
Once in a while, in the privacy of my own home, when no one is looking … I enjoy taking a peek at codes and statutes. I did...
It used to be that when the government wanted to shut down a TV station, or a radio broadcaster, they’d at least go through the motions of couching...
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