Amperes, not empires
In an interesting op-ed published in El Universal (now there’s something I don’t write every day), Julio Borges keeps the focus on bread-and-butter issues. If there is one...
Politics
Another one bites the dust
Chalk this up to another instance of the US justice system doing what the Venezuelan “justice” “system” refuses to do. Government regulator Rafael Ramos de la Rosa, who...
Not the pop singer
Our Defense Minister is some General called Carlos Mata. No, not the ’80s galán. This one is a scary motherfucker. Check out this interview. The money quote: “One of...
Defending The Interests Of The People
It’s 100-posts-in-five-days week, so here’s a post from longtime reader and only occasional poster Guido Núñez-Mujica. You’d guess that having electricity 24/7 would be something El Pueblo might...
The Pearly Gates
Over in Spanish, Raúl laughs his head off at Chávez’s supposed “plan” to stay in power after losing the vote. #7…or is this cheating?
Splitters!
This story about PPT splitting again between a pro-Chávez and an anti-Chávez faction is pure Monty Python. Gotta love AVN’s glee at this stuff… #6…we’re already behind!
Hugo Chávez: Toxic Brand
How toxic has the Chávez brand gotten in Latin America? So toxic that even the candidates the guy has bought and paid for are forced to distance themselves repeatedly...
A well regulated militia being deeply threatening to the security of an unfree State...
Over in Spanish, I think the unthinkable about Chávez’s plan to press absolutely everybody into serve in his militia…
PPT + MUD = 50%
Now that splinter opposition party PPT has officially joined the MUD, we can point to one important achievement of the Chávez administration: it’s making allies out of parties...
His tone-deafness is pathological
Hugo Chávez is traveling through South America, and as we have come to know, this is always good news for South America, and bad news for Venezuela. Case...
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