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Terror in Caracas
What we have experienced today in Caracas is terror. Even yours truly got gassed, not much but truly. But I am not the one who suffered the most, by far. So I will start this entry with pictures that...
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My April 19
I know, this is almost two days late but this was such a personal experience that I can indulge this post.It all started fairly normal. walking down El Cafetal and Chuao until arriving at the Caracas...
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And the next stop is....
OK, a lot has been going on. I cannot catch up with everything. So here follows a summary of sorts mixed with my conclusions. Sort it out if you can, I can't.The recent crude factsFACT 1April 19 was...
View ArticleUpdate on French elections
Yesterday I went to vote at the Caracas French embassy. I smelled tear gases wafting around us. Â On one side democracy, on the other democracy's assassins.Now that I managed to follow this blog...
View ArticleMaduro constituent assembly for dummies
So many things today! Â But before I address them in a following entry, it is urgent to explain what the constituent assembly called by Maduro truly means. About 2 hours ago in his speech at a pauperly...
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Marching on May 1st, Labor Day in Venezuela
As usual the following pictures are just to offer the readers the personal emotions of a protester like yours truly. Far better images and videos can be now found about Venezuela since its repression...
View ArticleWords have failed me
I have been absent for too long but the fact is that it has been difficult for me to write anything. The brutal escalade in terror, the many cross current events, my exhaustion at trying to keep...
View ArticleRepression facts
Next, without any order of importance, a few facts on repression after one month and a half.The saddest part is that there is 1 assassination per day, average.Any protest day may yield up to a couple...
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Speeding up to the grand finale
I was working on a text about how hard it has become to live in Caracas in the last month but today's news make me realize that it is going to get much worse fast.Highlighting Gladys becauseit makes me...
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50 days of street protest, and then this
Vastness, and depth Saturday 20 it was the 50th day protests started. And far from people getting tired, or scared because of increased repression, the opposition did a massive show of force that...
View ArticleElectoral mish-mash, or how to win when you lose an election
Today was a day rich in electoral content but woefully poor in electoral solutions.From chavismo side, at another failed rally of forced supporters, Maduro went ahead and announced how the...
View ArticleCassandra's narco-curse
It is hard not to be despondent in Venezuela these days. Even if the paradox is that the despondency of some translate into renewed energy. I suppose that when everything has been stolen from you, that...
View ArticleLuisa Ortega and Vladimir Padrino
What has happened this week with Defense minister Padrino and the nation's general prosecutor Luisa Ortega shows how far advanced is the decomposition of the regime. And it is starting to smell really...
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O marcho o me marcho
The title in Spanish cannot be translated with proper appreciation of its brilliant conciseness. The best I can do is "Either I walk in protest or I walk out of the country". What I experienced...
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From official terror to article 350 - 1) life in Caracas
Two and a half months of nearly continuous protests have passed. The only thing we can say for certain is that internal divisions of chavismo are being exposed, and that the country is falling...
View ArticleFrom official terror to article 350 - 2) state terrorism reflects chavismo...
The murder yesterday of David Vallenilla hit a new low, and hit a rawer nerve in the population. Murder, yes, point blank shooting murder, as seen in video but not on TV that the regime censors.El...
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From official terror to article 350 - 3) the country chavismo wants
If chavismo is divided it remains nevertheless that they all share a common vision of the country: we will never be out of office; we will create an opposition we like; we will share only a few things...
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From official terror to article 350 - 4) that hamletian moment
The opposition MUD is subjected to tremendous challenges, all coming from the fact that they need to face off a criminal narco-state without any help from the outside police.Why the world is not acting...
View ArticleJuly 4 meet July 5
I was reading the US Declaration of Independence again, this most formidable piece of literature, to begin with. Without changing a word this section can apply EXACTLY as is as to the opposition revolt...
View ArticleFrom official terror to article 350 - 5) taking off Ortega before 350
Writing this series of articles with long delays in between actually helped me a lot, proving that procrastination pays: the events of today establish beyond doubt that civil rebellion is the lone...
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