Begging for cocoa
“Pidiendo cacao” – literally, begging for cocoa – is Venezuelan slang for “asking for a freebie.” You know who’s “begging for cocoa” in a literal, not figurative sense?...
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Electric ills
After yesterday’s announcement that government working hours will be cut to save electricity, Nicolas Maduro tried to justify the measures in his weekly TV show by putting most...
How I became a Hezboll-iever
Some of you may have noticed that we don’t always write about every story that goes around. This has to do with erring on the side of carefulness. After...
Tweet of the Year
.@lubrio El término "malandro" es de la 4ta. Nos han propuesto "compañeros en situación temporal de hamponizidad, en vías de recuperación" — Aporrea (@aporrea) April 29, 2015 With...
Dim Wattage
See if you can detect the tension between these two recent news items: April 17th: In an interview with Barquisimeto newspaper El Impulso, Electrical Engineer Luis Vásquez Corro said...
How much debt is “manageable”?
According to IMF statistics, Japan’s general government’s gross debt for 2015 is 246% of GDP: the government owes 2.46 times as much as the Japanese economy as a whole...
Deadly Peace in the Tuy Valley (Updated)
Another weekend, another massacre in Venezuela: ten people were killed and three wounded during a late birthday party in Lomas de Guadalupe, a recently opened housing complex located...
Sobremesa chronicles
(For this week’s sobremesa, Rodrigo chimes in re. the “morality” of selling your dollar allowance) In Venezuela you get a yearly dollar allowance. If you use your allowance, nothing...
The True Story of How Quico Became Anti-Chavista
I moved back to Caracas in June, 1999, after living abroad for the previous eleven years. Chávez had taken power just five months earlier, and I was torn: on the...
Defending the consumer society
For the last decade we have been told that consumerism … is bad. It is evil. It sustains the capitalists, who in return exploit the common folk. The State...
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