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Este post está disponible en español. Venezuela’s National Assembly, our playhouse of populist political theater, sometimes – once in a blue moon – has to actually legislate. One...
Este post está disponible en español. Venezuela’s National Assembly, our playhouse of populist political theater, sometimes – once in a blue moon – has to actually legislate. One...
Over on CronicasDeCaracas.net, even the legendarily equanimous MoraimaG can’t help but blow her top at Chávez’s waste-of-protoplasm-as-tourism-minister Alejandro Fleming Cabrera.
by Moraima García Yesterday, a Venezuelan judge sentenced union leader Rubén González to seven years in prison. His crime? Helping to organize a strike to demand unpaid back...
So, we’re finding out what Miguel and Daniel have known all along: building an audience for the Spanish doppleganger to an English blog about Venezuela is not so...
I hate to discuss this, but it’s so shocking it needs to be told. Apparently the latest thing you simply cannot find in Venezuela’ shelves is … sanitary...
Since 2000, Venezuela’s prison capacity has grown by 1,200 places, thanks to the expansion of Yare Penitenciary and the construction of a new jail in Coro. In the...
Reading my review of Randy Brewer’s book on The New Republic, Alejandro Tarre demanded a right of reply. Isaiah Berlin once wrote that, “as an intellectual discipline, it...
One of the things that I find most disappointing about the Venezuelan press is how they frequently miss the important aspects of the stories they pretend to report....
A man makes millions of dollars helping Colombian guerrillas ship cocaine to hungry markets via Venezuela. Or he makes them through bribing financial institutions in order to exempt them...
In this special guest post for 23 de enero, Jose Ramón Morales Arilla announces an exciting initiative to start in on some serious planning for What Comes Next:...
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