Deliberate chaos: the first post modern cashless society. Not!
There are so many things that need to be discussed but my lifestyle, so to speak, forbids me to find the time for the blog. Yet tonight I must write to describe what is probably the most unjust,...
View ArticleAnd give us our everyday chaos
This could well be the chavista prayer because these people truly thrive in chaotic conditions. Well, not always but they certainly manage better than most.As expected it was pandemonium today. Banks...
View ArticleThe Grinch that DID steal Christmas
On November first Nicolas Maduro announced that Christmas had started and he went as far as already lightening up the traditional cross on the Avila mountain which is normally turned on December 1....
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Such a sad Christmas
This is the saddest Christmas I have ever seen in Venezuela. Admittedly Christmas may be sad for some according to family or health issues, but the country as a while still somehow manages to get into...
View ArticleAnd now what?
I have been avoiding it, but it is time to think about what these last weeks mean for Venezuela. Whether we like it, political tectonics are at work and January announces itself as a very difficult...
View ArticleA vision of 2017
While Diosdado Cabello was scheming to dismiss once and for all the National Assembly, on January 3 while on a flight to Punto Fijo a plane mechanical problem forced him into emergency landing in...
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Maduro names the cabinet from hell
The news came as a surprise. Not that a new cabinet was unexpected: around January 10 everyone expected Maduro to name a new Vice President, the one that would succeed him as president if he resigns,...
View ArticleAnd the year starts with a bang
Today the National Assembly sessions for 2017 started, without the regime dissolving it. Actually chavismo representatives attended though they denounced that the Assembly was illegal, and that they...
View Article2017 perspectives
Certainly it is a fool's errand to make any predictions for 2017, even if it is this time of the year when pundits dust off their crystal balls. Yet, this week has seen enough action that we can...
View ArticleThe maelstrom is forming
For readers of this blog it should not be a surprise that the regime has chosen naked repression. The nomination of Tareck El Aissami as vice president was a clear indication of that. The man is a born...
View ArticleMedical assistance required
Last October I posted a plea for help. The basic idea was to find medicine for my S.O. cancer, medicine that is not available in Venezuela anymore and that will not be available for the foreseeable...
View ArticleAn unacceptable proposal
UPDATEDComments to the mediators' proposal has been included. I also include an additional conclusion next.Commenting the proposal makes it even worse than what I thought it was at first. One wonders...
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Becoming a failed state (1): the parameters
There is actually the concern that Venezuela may become a failed state, if it has not become one already. After all, there is no way to get real numbers and thus for all that we know we may be already...
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Becoming a failed state (2): the people
Excruciating cattle line for a white plastic rectangleLast week end the regime was organization a census of sorts for people to sign up for “carnet de la patria”. The operation was on many Bolivar...
View ArticleBecoming a failed state (3): reversible?
We seem to agree that Venezuela is either already a failed state, or about to become one. It has a rather wretched populace. It has loss of institutions. It is unable to agree on anything. It is pretty...
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Tarecking CNN
This week has been a spinning nausea and we are only Wednesday evening. As of today we have a vice president accused of drug trafficking and fake passport emission, resulting not in an investigation...
View ArticleIn praise of the Trump-Tintori meeting
The meeting between Leopoldo Lopez wife, Lilian Tintori and the US president Donald Trump has not found favor among many people, many of them that should have known better. Thus the need for this brief...
View ArticleLa terrible semana de Nicolas Maduro
Hay momentos politicos que son explícitos en cuanto a la descomposición de un regimen. Si bien no vemos la fecha de expiración sabemos por el olor que el producto esta venciéndose. Esta semana a sido...
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Tareck does the New York Times
Everyday brings a new outrage with the Bolibanana revolution. Today it was Venezuela’s vice-president the Tareck El Aissami publishing an open letter in the New York Times. Before I get into the...
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In praise of the two MUD solution: 1- a new realitity
Let's be frank about it: when Obama and the Pope imposed a dialogue on the Venezuelan opposition MUD alliance they screwed us bad. But at least there is a tiny silver lining: the contradictions inside...
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