#Odebrechting - an Easter egg in the Brazilian media
Dilma Rousseff, the current President of Brazil, is leading a crumbling government, what with her poll ratings in the tweens. It’s always fun to see a chavista ally eating...
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Sobremesa Chronicles
Venezuela has fifteen official holidays, not counting the rest of Holy Week (only Thursday and Friday are official holidays). On top of this, Venezuelans spend countless hours outside of...
Your signature or your life
A few years ago, Hugo Chávez enacted one of his most vile yet brutally effective political strategies: the Lista Tascón. When the opposition began collecting signatures to recall his...
Alternative Twitter-verse
You probably know about the strange case of the fake child kidnapping that has served as an excuse for Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega Diaz to propose to regulate social...
Live-blogging "la cola"
It’s MY day. It’s not my birthday. And Saint Anne’s Feast Day is July 26th. It’s my day because, on Tuesdays, Venezuelans with ID numbers ending in 2 and...
Biggest source of news for Venezuela today? Lausanne
I have a pretty busy day today, but keep an eye out for what is happening in Lausanne in the negotiations between the world’s powers and Iran. Apparently,...
Economic Indicators for Dummies
Dear reader, Are you tired of the delays in the publication of official economic statistics? Do you feel a desperate urge to measure the magnitude of the economic crisis? We...
Suggested Sunday reading
Two great pieces from two friends-of-the-blog, both of them at Harvard University, both of them in Spanish. First off, Francisco Monaldi goes deep on hyperinflation in El Nacional. Francisco...
Sobremesa Chronicles
Some of you know that I live in a house as the sole male surrounded by four wonderful ladies. Yet as a man happily subdued, I have been trained to...
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