A layperson's guide to Venezuela's long recession
Yesterday, the Central Bank of Venezuela published its quarterly report on economic activity, covering the third quarter of 2010. Since these documents are close to impenetrable for a...
Yesterday, the Central Bank of Venezuela published its quarterly report on economic activity, covering the third quarter of 2010. Since these documents are close to impenetrable for a...
So far, I’ve avoided discussing Hugo Chávez’s Twitter account. But let’s face it – the thing is downright depressing. Chávez’s last tweets were on November 1st, and they...
It’s an election season mainstay, a tradition almost. Ahead of every vote since the opposition’s catastrophically misguidedecision to cry “Fraud!” in 2004, government spokesmen go on the record to ponderously...
Greetings earthlings! As we continue working our transition to the new website, we’ll continue posting this week. One of the more interesting stories as of late is the tale...
(A nugget of a story that landed in my Inbox, courtesy of a long-time reader) Hey chamos! Wanna laugh a bit? Check out this story of how our...
Eleven years into his Presidency, it’s an established fact that Hugo Chávez handles our country’s finances like his own personal pulpería. In spite of this, it never ceases...
Transfixed as we all were by the picture-perfect rescue of the 33 Chilean miners, something Michael Moore said last night on the otherwise ludicrous Larry King show stuck...
It had to come to this. El Universal is reporting on the current Criminal Code project. The lame-duck chavista National Assembly has apparently decided to de-criminalize abortion in...
Picturing the results announcements tonight is kind of a nightmare for me. Aside from the usual chaos of Venezuela’s elections, we will have the despelote of numbers and...
The ads have been aired. The washing machines have been handed out. You know what that means: time to predict the outcome. Lately, there has been much discussion...
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