"según el" y otras formas de minimizar la cruda realidad venezolana
Esta semana leí y oí cosas que me preocuparon mucho, cosas que indican una cierta resignación hacia el chantaje chavista de la sociedad, el "tatequieto" que se nos aplicó desde el 2003. Empezó con en...
View ArticleThe December 2013 electoral post, or lack thereof in the future
I have no intention to cover in deep the mayoral elections of December 2013. First, prediction is extremely hazardous because chavismo and opposition are, write it down, going to make major mistakes...
View ArticleAre the radicals winning the regime's infighting?
Chavismo has been torn apart, in secret, since Chavez death. The battle implies several factions, from rich corrupt bolibourgeois to radical idiotism pushing forward ideas that have always failed in...
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Tour-de-Francing
It is the 100th tour this year and it is all inside France. And ESPN has decided to show the live feed from France though with English speakers that stumble badly on words like Céüze. Never mind that...
View ArticleHow my week started at work....
Monday AM early. Funeral for the mother of an employee that died of A1H1N1.Monday afternoon. A company driver on a delivery was attacked at a street light. they stole his papers and his money. Luckily...
View ArticleCarta abierta a Michele Bachelet, ex presidenta y candidata a la presidencia...
Estimada (ex)-presidenta BacheletMe permito escribirle por que me parece que usted manejo mal el asunto de la visita intempestiva de Henrique Capriles a Chile. Entiendo muy bien que para usted él llega...
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Towards "le dernier carré", or Maduro circling the wagons
SICAD at Waterloo"Le dernier carré" is a known military term, particularly put in vogue at Waterloo when the last battalion of the Garde Impériale was called at the end of the battle, as much as a last...
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Oh Dear! Capriles uses the F word
But can you blame him?El Gobierno fascista toma represalias contra la aerolínea LAN pq viajamos en ella a Chile y el regreso,así actúan los fascistas!— Henrique Capriles R. (@hcapriles) July 21,...
View ArticleComparing Venezuela and Egypt. NOT! Musings on youth protest...
Even though this blog likes historical coincidences readers will have noticed that I have stayed clear from the latest Egyptian revolution cum coup. For one thing, my allergy to anything military,...
View ArticleThe ghost of Chavez over the Venezuelan fleet
Today is the birthday of Bolivar, and as a happy coincidence for some parties, the victory of Maracaibo lake which was the last "battle" fought against Spain for independence. Thus it is also the...
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Good Morning Molecular Biologists
Google greeted me this morning with a doodle on Rosalind Franklin, the unsung hero of the Molecular Biology Revolution that Watson and Crick "officially" started. I relate on so many levels :-)
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Nelson Bocaranda confirms what this blog wrote in November 2012
In his Runrunes of today Nelson Bocaranada, regime prosecuted journalist, writes about an "incident" in Calabozo, Guarico State. Apparently the Colombian guerrilla FARC has set camp there and has...
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The Post Chavez era of propaganda
Having an arepa at my occasional hangout in San Felipe I was forced to read Ultimas Noticias as the last "national" paper still available. And I fell on this so telling regime propaganda that I could...
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15 years of triumphant chavista Bolibanana Revolution and I only got that rancho
When I moved to San Felipe, Rafael Caldera had managed to do about half the the highway between San Felipe and Moron, with a bankrupt country. After 14 years of chavismo flush with cash, only a couple...
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The IAEPHC is born. We may finally start understanding something of the...
Hefty, hefty.....In the "you cannot make up such shit" section, today Maduro signed the decree to open theInstituto de Altos Estudios del Pensamiento de Hugo Chávez, or for you Spanish speaking...
View ArticleVagabunderias y permanente subdesarrollo chavista en Venezuela
Este fin de semana vimos dos cosas que deberían dejar pensativo a muchos en Venezuela. De un lado nos decretan un tal Instituto de Altos Estudios del Pensamiento de Hugo Chávez y por el otro leemos que...
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Mardicidio
¿Lo que ayude?Me van a disculpar pero hay ciertas cosas que me impiden ponerme todo emotivo por la barbaridad que le van a hacer a Richard Mardo en la Asamblea Nacional en pocas horas. Si es que se...
View ArticleThe dictatorship post Mardo view in Caracas
So, what are we to do with the new aggression against parliamentary democracy yesterday in Caracas?Nothing much, unfortunately.I am in the obligation, to start this post, of reminding the reader that...
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When a president becomes certifiable: Maduro pre-loony-bin?
The Mardo thing is having deeper effects inside chavismo than inside the opposition. After all, the apparent unity of the opposition, that no one, not even chavistas seem to buy the corruption charges...
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Nicolás: ¿quieres luchar contra la corrupción y la inflación? ¡Cierra el SADA!
Nicolás Maduro, déjate de bolserías y empieza a arreglar esta vaina. Es mas fácil de lo que crees. Empieza con el SADA, ese mamotreto que esta paralizando el país aunque no estés al tanto. Como no creo...
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