Time is running for March elections
UPDATEDAccording a February 7 post if elections are to be celebrated March 17 for a new president the end of the Chavez era must be announced this week, say, tomorrow at the latest.... Announcement...
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When a thousand words may be better than a picture: Chavez in bed
UPDATED 1 and 2What to do with the proof of life the regime offered today?Smiling reading Granma? Must be the comics page.....So apparently Chavez is alive. The husband of one of the two girls above,...
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Photoshopping photofails
Oh well [sigh]... The cover of Tal Cual today tells you what a dismal failure the photoshopped/staged pictures of Chavez were in the general public opinion.When a major paper dares to put on cover such...
View ArticleTelling details of a rotting regime: orders from Cuba
I cannot pass on two things that tell you what a decomposed (rotten already?) country we live in.In a Tweet the president of the national assembly, Diosdado Cabello, tells us that he was summoned to...
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Chavez: "I am baaaack..."
Except that he cannot have said that since he cannot talk.Poltergeist: "the return" episode has started, and adequately, in the middle of night, straight to a military hospital, no pictures, nothing....
View ArticleLa fea cara del fascismo Castro-chavista: atacando a Yoani Sanchez
Pues bien, por fin, después de años de lucha, a Yoani Sánchez se le permitió salir de Cuba para una gira internacional. Pues bien, apenas llegó al aeropuerto de Recife en Brasil salió una patota...
View ArticleIdiot of the month: Ricardo Sanguino, chair of finance committee...
We thought it would be Girodani in justifying the devaluation. But no, representative Sanguino made a run for the title. First in Spanish then my translation."El concepto de devaluación corresponde a...
View ArticleFrench Idiot of the month: Gerard Depardieu (á la Sean Penn)
For those who understand Spanish there is a clear and concise explanation of Depardieu latest spat over taxes in France which led him to become Russian. Moises Naim, a leading opinion maker in Latin...
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Digital TV in Venezuela: safely pro regime (Globovision to be executed)
How late we are.....URGENTE UPDATE (including modified title)So today I read there was a cadena (I am at work, no broadband, no TV). The reason (any reason is good to promote the hair, Maduro) was to...
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The organized chaos of Venezuela
For the casual observer visiting Venezuela these days two things must be striking: the chaos surrounding almost everything and the feeling to live in a magic realism novel that not even Garcia Marquez...
View ArticleWill they dare to swear in Chavez in the dark?
Venezuela is now beyond a joke. The president apparently came back in the wee hours of Monday to Tuesday night. And yet nobody knows for sure. Let me put it this way: by now, Friday early evening,...
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WTF News and Views?
Segue to my last night post.Jaua (foreign "minister"): Chavez respiratory deficiency has increased [sic in Spanish, believe it or not].Maduro ("Vice president"): we have had a 5 hours meeting with...
View ArticleEcuador Correa's success?
I have mixed feelings (surprise!) about Rafael Correa expected reelection in Ecuador. Of course chavistas call it a success on their side while the Venezuelan opposition, well, it stays silent....
View ArticleDiego Arria or the 47%?
I was watching with interest Diego Arria participation in the Globovison opinion talk show "Alo Ciudadano" (1). He may be infuriating or be considered a Delphic oracle, the point is that he stirs up...
View ArticleThe devaluation is retroactive: the great chavista robbery
There is all sorts of economists pontificating about the devaluation and all sorts of politicians talking of "paquetazo rojo" and how minimum wage has lost X% of its purchasing power. But I do not...
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Back to court: multiple jeopardy for Leopoldo Lopez
Always courageously swimming against the tideLeopoldo Lopez was back in court this morning, to be accused for the nth time for the same offense that holds no ground, no matter which legal angle the...
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El Universal starts editorials
El Universal is the most venerable paper in Venezuela today. Beyond any remarks on its quality it is the longest serving national paper, it is the paper of reference if you will. El Nacional may do...
View ArticleFirst 2013 Electoral Survey for Venezuela
ABC of Spain strikes again. According to their latest report, he is in his last throes, was sent to La Orchila, a presidential island that he has set up already in 2011 with a mini hospital for his...
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Of white ass cheeks and Capriles: looking everywhere for Chavez
When arguments fail, anything is a raftThe regime is managing to reach new lows of ridicule on a daily basis. Today it reached two, TWO.The first one is from the ex-interior/security minister, noted...
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SIBCI (Seebcee), rhymes with wheeeee!
The latest creation of the regime is a centralized portal to make sure that they all toe the line, stay in tune, and have the message reach all. Portable loud speakers are included in the deal.I am not...
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