Preparing the OAS Panama summit, at Raul's good will
Now, before anyone says anything I am a great fan of Andres Oppenheimer from the Miami Herald whose columns and books on Latin America are a must read. But his latest OpEd piece has a je ne sais quoi...
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Masochist Felipe Gonzalez goes to Venezuela (and he has followers)
And he certainly found all the sadist he can wish for inside chavismo. Since Gonzalez announced he will volunteer to be in the defense team of Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma the improprieties...
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It is not truth or dare in Caracas, it is scream and dare
One has to wonder, and somehow admire, the chutzpah of Maduro promising to go all the way through his signature collection to bring them to Panama and humiliate Obama. That nearly magnificent obsession...
View ArticleFun Poll result
I took the opportunity of Easter week, traditionally the lowest readership week with the one between Christmas and New Year, to run a poll.Even though visitors kept at a brisk pace (over 4000 unique...
View ArticleThundering Twittering Terror
So the OAS summit is about to start. A lot of clouds are announced, then again nothing may happen. And then again the unexpected may take place. Should we care? I do not need to enter much into that...
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Fake signatures in lieu of votes, popular clamor in lieu of democracy
So Maduro will present 10 or 13 or 3 million signatures in Panama today. To Obama, to the public or to the dumpster. Does it matter?Sending the message that votes are unnecessary The shame has...
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The money is mine and I'll do what I want to do with it (and, by the way,...
When I wrote this morning post I did not realize that tonight I would be writing the same one but from a different angle. That is, materially not the same at all, but philosophically, so to speak, they...
View ArticlePanama OAS summit for dummies
OK, real quick.The OAS summit, from Venezuela's Maduro regime was supposed to be the trashing of Obama and the US.From the US and Cuba it was going to be the start of something and a positive PR for...
View ArticleWhat if you inaugurated a new bus line and nobody came?
In a success starved regime anything becomes a great triumph. Thus inaugurating 6 miles of a simple blocked lane for accordion buses is shamelessly termed the most modern transportation system in Latin...
View ArticleNo more dollars for FEDECAMARAS? They never asked for any!
We do not know who writes Maduros's scripts but the last one was a dozy. In his constant search for a scapegoat for his constant piling up of mistakes Nicolas Maduro has decided last week that...
View ArticleToday is Leopoldo Lopez second birthday in jail
And I have nothing best to offer but a repost of what I wrote a year ago. Unbearably actual.----------------------------------------------Today, after soon three month in jail and no trial in sight,...
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300
I am not referring to the title of a rather trashy movie purposely showing enhanced muscular bodies fighting it out with alleged Persians in dreadful drag. I am referring to a trashy banana republic...
View ArticleVN&V will not cover the coming legislative elections in Venezuela
Now that I may have gotten your attention, this is not entirely true. But what is true is that it is not worth my time covering elections which are a fraud on so many levels, from so many sides. And...
View ArticleThe Youtube campaign: those are the candidates you need to vote for inside...
Not that it makes any difference at this point. Not that I wrote yesterday that I was standing this election out for many reasons. However I also wrote that the candidates I wanted were either in...
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Capitalism as seen from chavismo
Chavistas have an odd way to look at capitalism. On one hand they are the most savage of capitalist, looting the national treasury in a way that would make blush the worst robber barons of the XIX...
View ArticleVoluntad Popular scores
Preliminary results indicate that for all efforts of the regime to silence Voluntad Popular, for all efforts of the opposition to lower the aspirations of the "upstart", Leopoldo Lopez's vehicle may...
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The Venezuelan Narco State is getting an international definition
The Wall Street Journal published yesterday the first comprehensive account on the multiple investigations in the USA on Venezuela's drug traffic links, and possible long term consequences of those. In...
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The good news bad news silly game
Before I am accused of being once again misleading, there is no good news in Venezuela, even if Diosdado were to be taken in chains today a la Noriega. The country is far too advanced in its...
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400
Official rate, for corrupt narco military only, is still at 6.3Away from the computer for three days and I come back tonight to see that the Venezuelan black market currency has crossed the 400...
View ArticleThe 400 question
As the Venezuelan currency is in an accelerating downward spiral the real question is not why such a thing is happening; the real question is why would one sell its US dollars for a currency that is...
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