Paranoid much?
Want to make Rafael Ramirez really uncomfortable? Start talking about the need for a Transitional Government, no matter what the context. The United Nations Security Council expressed support for...
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Murder, Deceit, and Patriotic Cooperation
Turns out, Patriotas Cooperantes are sick, degenerate psychopaths being used by the chavista propaganda machine to orchestrate a media-fueled political scandal that could implicate opposition leaders in a gruesome murder investigation, just in time for parliamentary elections.
Chavismo's LGBT Problem
A couple of weeks ago, CC fellow blogger Audrey M. DaCosta wrote about Tamara Adrian, Venezuela’s fist-ever transgender candidate for public office. Her story made headlines and shone...
Fact-Checking the Perrarina Canard
You’ve heard it. Everyone’s heard it. In the early 1990s, the Venezuelan economy got so bad, poor people were forced to eat “Perrarina”, the popular dry dog food...
In Defense of Guerrilla Capitalism
Rigid price controls, coupled with strict controls over the movement of food from one place to another, can break down society’s ability to feed itself. It’s a lethal...
El Aissami Police Holds Summary Executions, Governor Blames Capitalism
This shaky footage, clearly the work of a trembling hand, is good enough to make out the basics: In broad daylight, in an alley behind some buildings, three...
Accountability, Jesse Chacón Style
Remember Jesse Chacón, Venezuela’s Electricity Czar? The guy’s useless at getting power flowing smoothly, of course, but you do have to give him credit for absolutely incredible, titanium-plated cojones....
VENZ/PDVSA: The Mixed Martial Arts of Bond Trading
The Indiana Jones-meets-Wolf of Wall Street reality that is dealing in Venezuelan debt instruments.
Baduel Paroled
General Raúl Baduel was granted parole yesterday after serving six years out of an eight year sentence on trumped up charges of embezzlement. Chávez’s one-time Defense Minister, and...
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