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Internet censorship in Venezuela: it has started
Alek Boyd this morning asked his friends to check his Infodio site where he exposes regularly with the help of a lot of people all those who under the Chavez regime have been minting money, in an...
View ArticleWhen all are rights there are no rights
The announcement of pet rights this month in Venezuela makes obvious that nobody has rights.The 1999 constitution was heralded as one of the most progressive in human rights for the hemisphere. I...
View ArticleMaduro will do nothing, part 2
Every week that passes gives us a clear example that Maduro will do nothing to solve our problems. Last week he showed his incapacity coupled to his unwillingness and his "I do not give a damn about...
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Maduro's vortexing
Does this picture mean anything?Capriles and Rodriguez TorresIn this picture a rather criticized Capriles gathers with the Police Minister, a former 1992 coup monger in charge of killing, if necessary,...
View ArticleRamirez devaluates without devalauting, solving no real problem in Venezuela
Finally the regime decided to apply some measures to try to stop the crisis. They will fail, of course, because the root problem is not faced, but who seems to care... I followed the press conference...
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Chávez era un reaccionario desde tiempos bien atrás...
... desde los tiempos de Pangea cuando Cuba y Venezuela se tocaban.Chavez was a reactionary since Pangea days.... when Cuba and Venezuela abutted...Fuente: "I fucking love Science" y mapa completo aquí.
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Jeff Bezos will go to jail in Venezuela
The regime has made it official today: there is a new decree law from Maduro regulating how commerce can operate, from profit margins to price controls and the astounding sanctions to whomever does not...
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Will Venezuela default on its debts?
The question that has become "the question" since last Wednesday devaluation is will Venezuela go into default. The question is not idle because any half brained analyst of economical matters like...
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The limits of the Big Mac Index: Venezuela with the most expensive or...
Venezuela has a way to test any economic indicator, and The Economist Big Mac Index is no exception. After the jump is the large picture of the world currency overvaluation or undervaluation, and some...
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¿Amazon? ¡Exprópiese! ¿Jeff Bezos? ¡Pa’Tocorón!
El régimen por fin publicó el viernes en gaceta la nueva ley de precios justos con la fundacióndel SUNDDE (que nada tiene que ver con lo dulce de un helado sundae). Propongo que el primer negocio que...
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I am a Social Democrat, you are not, he wishes, we should all be, you can...
Many essential debates as to the future of the country should be held these days but as usual you can count on Venezuelan politicians to discuss on anything but... The latest one of such futile...
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I am the true oppo, you are a fake one, he has no idea what h's doing, we...
This week we have Henrique Capriles bitching like a spoiled brat on Twitter contrasting with a Maria Corina Machado muscling in, while Leopoldo Lopez plucks the socialdemocrat daisy. And yet it all...
View ArticleMy recipe for the Venezuelan opposition (for what good it does...)
So tomorrow Lopez and Machado and, rather unexpectedly, Ledezma are planning to gather for the the first formal street activity to force the regime to do.... whatever. The regime will of course do as...
View ArticleToward post 4000
Ephemerides keep coming. Early January this blog crossed the 11 years mark of continuous posting, with no more than a couple of weeks break for travel or sickness. In about 5 posts we may reach post...
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Rafael Poleo is ever so irritating, but maybe quite right
Rafael Poleo is a journalists already mentioned in this blog who has a long trajectory as a pro AD operative, which has eventually landed him into exile about three years ago when he said on TV that...
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Public service announcement: get ready to starve in Venezuela
This is a public service announcement for readers living in Venezuela: you may be running out of food within a month. I know that because I have heard through my clients and business partners that the...
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The fascists in charge of Venezuela want to kill the press, while banging...
Maduro yesterday said that he was willing to risk being called dictator but that he was going to restrict press reporting on stuff he does not like it to be reported on. Let's start with clearing up...
View ArticleProtests in Venezuela
Later in past week there has been a series of student protests in Tachira and Merida mainly. I have not written on them because 1) I had no time and 2) more importantly I lack accurate information now...
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Berlin Diaries for Caracas
I have been for a few days in Caracas and I have been reminded a lot of a book that I read long ago, Berlin Diaries. Not that the situation of Caracas in 2014 is like the one of Berlin 70 years ago....
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Tachira heats up
As I said earlier, there is little I can tell, but today there are reliable tweets that are eloquent about what is going on in San Cristobal right now.a tweet from Maria Corina Machado (sorry, Tweeter...
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