As one UN test ends, another one begins
The Venezuelan State is once again under review this week as the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee will monitor the country’s performance on civil and political rights, based...
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This Day of the Journalist is the toughest one yet
June 27th was Day of the Journalist in Venezuela and instead of being simply an occasion to celebrate, it was a day to protest the continuous erosion of...
A Bloody Mess
On May 28th Venezuela celebrated the International Menstrual Hygiene Day. On that day, we embraced: …the opportunity to create awareness of the right of women and girls to hygienically manage their...
MUD, the Sausage Fest
Yesterday, when Tibi announced that they were going for “full on gender equality” in the candidate lists… I cackled. You know why? Because we’ve known this was coming...
Import Substitution, only without the "Substitution" bit
Reuters’ has this intriguing investigative piece on the weird dynamics of Chinese investment in Venezuela. The way this seems to work is: A Chinese company announces it’s going to...
I am Tibi, hear me roar
Tibisay Lucena, the head of Venezuela’s National Elections Council, has been called many things before: a die-hard chavista; a machiavellian tool of the revolution; a sensible technician; a lover...
The Pirates of Lake Maracaibo
Last Saturday, eight fishermen left their homes in San Francisco (South of Maracaibo) in the early hours to go to work. They didn’t return to their homes. Their families and...
In case of a water landing, your CADIVI cupo may be used as a flotation device
Something about this story is…just not right: Despite currency woes in Venezuela, a new low-cost airline plans to launch daily flights between Fort Lauderdale and the Venezuelan capital...
Diosdado's guessing game
It’s been a week since the Diosdado/Shannon picture show and we’ve read many hypothesis over what had to happen to get that photo opp. Both Jackson Diehl and...
La Vinotinto hitches a ride
The national football team (a.k.a. La Vinotinto) returned to the country yesterday after its first-round elimination of the 2015 Copa America held in Chile. But the way back home...
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