The nightmare that is INTI
Katy says: – I’m in Maracaibo, walking up 72nd street. Everything is flooded. I’m with my aunt Isabel, only she’s twenty years younger and considerably taller than me,...
Katy says: – I’m in Maracaibo, walking up 72nd street. Everything is flooded. I’m with my aunt Isabel, only she’s twenty years younger and considerably taller than me,...
Quico says: I’d been planning to wait until Thursday’s Interpol report on the authenticity of the Reyes laptops to join this particularly sordid fray, but really there’s no...
Quico says: It’s official: the inhabilitación binge will be matched by a PSUV purge. In a weird kind of political murder-suicide, chavismo is not just disqualifying key oppo...
Katy says: When Chávez first came to power, one of the things he asked to include in the Constitution was the concept of “food security.” The country’s ability...
Quico says: If you’re looking for some mind-broadening reading this weekend, I heartily recommend this New Republic piece by Iraq War-monger extraordinaire Robert Kagan. It’s about the rising...
Katy says: “Exit poll results show major defeat for Chávez” Caracas Chronicles headline, August 17th, 2004, citing a press release from Penn, Schoen & Berland. The long anticipated...
Weil says:I liked this image a lot in simply because it shines a spotlight on the key to understanding Venezuela’s current reality: the delirious, rampant mismatch between official...
Katy says: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced yesterday that he was nationalizing the cement industry, “no matter the cost.” With no previous warning, he gave the order on...
Quico says: So, as I mentioned, in the middle-class-to-escualidón circles I tend to frequent in Caracas, Cadivi has become a constant, ever-present worry, a universal obsession. Everyone you...
Ask anyone at all and they’ll tell you: hands down, the three most feared words in Venezuela’s bureaucratic vocabulary are “there’s no material.” It’s a kind of code...
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