Who was Leamsy Salazar? Hugo Chávez's Pride and Joy
How close was Leamsy Salazar to President Chávez? Well, why don’t we let the eternal commander himself answer that question, in this Aló, Presidente clip from just after...
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The ex-presidents club
Three former Latin American Presidents – Andres Pastrana of Colombia, Felipe Calderón of Mexico, and Sebastián Piñera of Chile – were in Caracas in the last few days...
The tale of the lonely airport
Back in March 2014, Vice-President Jorge Arreaza formally re-opened the Bartolome Salom Airport in Puerto Cabello, after spending ten years closed. With almost a year or remodelling works...
The Bodyguard
On Monday afternoon, rumors started building on a story that would headline the Spanish newspaper, ABC, on Tuesday: “Security Chief of Chavista number 2 flees to the US...
UN confirms poverty on the rise in Venezuela
The UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America is finally catching on to what we wrote about months ago: poverty is on a quick ascendancy in Venezuela. The worst part of...
Ration Card Now
Estimado Nicolás, No te preocupes, no te voy a ladillar más con la cantaleta de siempre: que si que hay que unificar el tipo de cambio, que si...
Sobremesa chronicles
In the last few days, a document has been circulating. In it, sixty well-known Venezuelan economists (most of whom I appreciate and admire) make a list of urgent...
Notitarde: Censorship in the 21st Century
After days of rumours, it was finally confirmed that Notitarde, one of Valencia’s main newspapers (the other one being El Carabobeño) was sold by its largest shareholder Ricardo...
Making our Internet even worse (Updated)
Over the weekend, there was a massive outage of the Internet by the State-owned company CANTV, which affected most of the country. Even if CANTV apologized and said...
Maduro's stealth devaluation
It’s easy to be dispirited by Maduro’s address last night. The three-hour rant was only occasionally peppered with substantive announcements, and none of them were clear enough to...
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