A letter to Brexiters who think they are on top
So you won yesterday by a hair thin margin on such a transcendental question. You got rid of Cameron and you probably will get "common man" Boris or Farage as prime minister in charge of dealing all...
View ArticleRevocatorio, Brexit and other assauts on democracy
This past week we got dramatic examples on the limits of democracy. Let's dispatch Brexit fast as the "revocatorio" will require some details.Some claim that Brexit was an exercise in Democracy and...
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Diary of Venezuelan businesses demise
It is now vox populi that Venezuela is suffering a major political induced economic crisis which has yielded bread lines and people dead from the lack of medicine. The two root causes are well known....
View ArticleWays out of the mess, doubtful all, military for sure, recall it ain't
Last I wrote on ways to get out of this mess was June 11 (and April). Things have changed somewhat since these entries. Time to include recent developments.What has not changedIt is still a matter of a...
View ArticleRecalling the recall
The news today, allegedly good, is that the CNE would have recognized that the 1% per state required signatures to call for a collection of a 20% required signatures to call for a recall election has...
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When the statist state runs out of ideas (and other's people money)
AS expected the rise of general Vladimir Padrino as co-president of Maduro has changed nothing. After all Venezuela has been a dictatorship for a while, of a new XXI century kind certainly, but a...
View ArticleCorruption creativity
Two short posts this week end, for your reading pleasure. The first one on corruption latest updates.The current crisis cannot be solved because the change in economic policies would result in the...
View ArticleNarko-Radikalismus
When everything fails, repeat it all. In particular the parts that clearly are rotten at the root.This is what Maduro has done last week.The paradox in covering Venezuela lately is that change is so...
View ArticleRecall Election all but over
Today the head of the electoral board, CNE, Tibisay Lucena announced that "if all goes well" the gathering of the 20% signature from the registered electors could take place late October. TRANSLATION:...
View ArticleNo recall election in 2016: one hidden motive
As a supplement of yesterday's post where I explained why there would not be a Recall Election , or any election for that matter, we got some declarations today that definitely rule out a recall...
View ArticleMe and Hillary
Around US election time I allow myself a post where I express my opinion. I am of those who think that foreigners should have a say in the US election since we will all pay the consequences of that...
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Esau would get a good deal from Jacob in Venezuela
The new minimum wage increase decreed by Maduro is of course a fraud. No need to insult the gentle reader reminding him or her that the inflation has already pre empted any increase Maduro may give us;...
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Tales from the breadlines
Two short tales on food lines.There are breadlines everyday in front of the bakeries that will be making bread. Not all do, some because they cannot deal with the mess and others because, well, they...
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FARC soon at a Venezuelan arepera next to you
ABC journalist and bete noire of chavismo for all of the insider leaks he has been reporting, Emili Blasco, writes a piece in ABC about how the FARC is preparing its retreat to Venezuela once (before?)...
View ArticleKalends of September for chavismo, or so it seems
The regime has made its business to turn into a fateful day the vast opposition rally planned for next Thursday September 1st. The regime has a lot to lose on that day, but it made sure that its losses...
View Article1S coverage by VN&V
Since last night post things got worse. A bevy of journalists have been barred from entry in or outright expelled from the country (useless unless they also expelled those that are already installed as...
View ArticleThe opposition MUD alliance great political victory
There is no way around it. Today the opposition political umbrella alliance MUD scored a brilliant victory. Here is why.It resisted all sorts of terrible pressures to prevent the meeting in Caracas,...
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"Margarita follies": a cheap vaudeville in 5 acts
ProloguePSUV tent cityCourtesy Elides Rojas tweetIn the fair city of Caracas, Henry Ramos gathers a few friends for a big party. Nicolas Maduro is not invited and he tries to sabotage Henry's party by...
View ArticleThere we are not, at freedom
Long time I did not write a summary of what is going on. As usual there is a big yawn along as everything changes fast but everything is, in the end, the same: a gang of thugs will do whatever it is...
View ArticleThy electoral CNE shoe droppeth
There will be a lot of brouhaha in the next days about the ignominious decision of the CNE to do its utmost to violate the constitution in order to block the Recall Election against Maduro. Let me try...
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