Diminishing returns to the casquillo diet
The government’s latest orchestrated outbreak of opposition-baiting tirades is, frankly, tiresome. Time was when the opposition really could be riled, baited, worked up and even split by a savage...
Politics
Dispatches from the other end of the sanity spectrum
There’s something grimly funny about this story on reactions to Mario Silva‘s whacked out personal attack on Miguel Henrique Otero..and something pathetic, heart-rending about its studious avoidance of repeating the phrase...
9,621,334,845.49 vs. 314
Nine billion Six-hundred and twenty-one million Three hundred and thirty four thousand Eight-hundred and forty five dollars and forty-nine cents. That, according to new revelations from Mérida National...
Iris Varela, no longer funny
I’ll admit, when Iris Varela was appointed to a cabinet position, I smiled broadly. Iris is a nutter, a loose cannon, the personification of unhinged chavista maximalism, but...
Chavista paper thinks US Embassy is its bitch
Ernesto Villegas, the director of the rag that first posted the false news about the Venezuelan soccer team’s visas, has decided to double down. He insists the rumor...
Geez XXI
So, GIS XXI just published a “poll” gauging the public’s reaction to the announcement that Chávez has cancer. (No prizes for guessing what Jesse’s genius pollsters found.) Funny thing,...
Extra! Extra! Nepotist writes speech, makes us splash it on the front page of his paper!
What do you call someone who makes the paper he edits run his own speeches as front-page news? Il hacko di tutti i hacki? Folks, El Nacional editor Miguel...
MUD-fight
The war against the MUD continues. Every three hours or so there is something new. Now, VTV airs private conversations from non-entities to show … what, exactly? Seriously,...
Iris, unfiltered
Iris Varela’s plan to deal with prison overcrowding by simply freeing 40% of the prison population is nice and all, but … aren’t judges supposed to be the ones...
They bark, Sancho... (Updated)
For the life of me, I can’t remember the last time an obscure, hard-to-understand decision by the opposition unleashed the torrent of invective that has been foaming from...
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