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The day Ramos Allup drove the stake at the heart of the MUD
The July 16th vote, annulled todayToday's events remind me a little bit of that type of horror movie which starts with some bloody body(ies) and a mysterious shadow drifting away. Heck, sometime the...
View ArticleLive! The implosion of the opposition alliance
Well, that was faster than expected.So the day started with the sworn AD governors at a press conference. They said it had to be cut short becasue they had to take a plane. But lo' and behold! The...
View ArticleCan Sakharov save the Venezuelan opposition?
No.At least not in its current form.The day started in a stupendous note: the European parliament awarded its Sakharov prize to the Venezuelan opposition, namely the National Assembly that the regime...
View Article"esos son los que se quedaron"
On the evening of Chavez 2006 reelection I did write a wistful note that somehow made it to the Wall Street Journal. Then this blog was in the news as the other news were not yet on all of Chavez...
View ArticleI do not want to want to restructure the debt
This is pretty much what Maduro has in mind when he talks of restructuring the huge Venezuelan debt, huge enough that a default would at the very least send shudders through the markets (though it has...
View ArticleHappy T-day USofA
To US readers still haunting this page I wish them a happy, loving Thanksgiving,I have been out of Venezuela for urgent major family matters and blogging on what I cannot properly follow seemed...
View ArticleHoy no voté
Hoy por primera vez en mi vida decidí deliberadamente, sin consigna de nadie, no ir a votar. Si tienen paciencia me permitirán explicarles.No votaré porque los abstencionistas me convencieron. De...
View ArticleA Christmas from hell
I know, I know, I should be wishing all of you a merry Christmas... Good for you if you can, my heartfelt wishes. But here, it is hell.I am not going to bother you with summaries from around the...
View Article2017 roundup: intro
It seems that this year I will have more time for myself than usual.Starvation shopping done? Check!S.O. sort of stable? Check!Nowhere to go to spend time and money? Check!No way I can be productive at...
View Article2017 round up: chavismo has not changed, and can't
It is necessary to repeat this over and over: the current Venezuelan regime CANNOT yield to a democratic transition. Its leadership is way too compromised in particularly obscene corruption to which...
View ArticleBest wishes for 2018
Well, for those outside of Venezuela that is. Here? "May you survive 2018" seems as reasonable request as you may utter.I do look like a chavista. Late December I was speculating/promising that I may...
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The need to thread carefully around the Oscar Perez saga
I know I am not going to make friends with this entry but someone has to write it down.First, what was done to Oscar Perez this week was an abomination, an execution worthy of what Stalin did (or...
View ArticleNothing like throwing in a little presidential election to distract folks
Today, without much a surprise besides the chutzpah temporary effect, the regime decided to call for presidential election by April 30.I am not to go into the illegality of it all. At this point...
View ArticleThose little genocidal moments
About every 6 weeks or so I need to take the S.O. to pick up his treatments at the IVSS high cost medicine. By law in Venezuela a whole series of medications, usually expensive, cannot be sold and...
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Macron does Maduro, or how to make a big mess of your so called foreign policy
Last night I read in awe the words of French President Emmanuel Macron on Venezuela (1). Not necessary for what he said, after all he did not send the French Foreign legion to land in Venezuela. But...
View ArticleAnd check one more for Maduro: the terrible state of Venezuelan opposition
I keep postponing writing on what to do about Venezuela, the more so now that international pressure is growing in earnest. But everyday here I get new evidence that Maduro's domination (not strength,...
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Let's buy an election
In Venezuela elections have lost any meaning.The regime now manufactures the votes it needs to win whatever it needs to win. And now, courtesy of hyperinflation, it can also print money at will to...
View ArticleThere cannot be dialogue in the dialogue
Today we had one more episode of the painful soap: dialogue in Santo Domingo. Apparently there was, or there was not, a draft, or a pre-draft, agreement, or an agreement to make an agreement someday....
View ArticleRex Tillerson all but declares war on Maduro narco dictatorship
This video is self explanatory.EN VIDEO | Rex Tillerson: "El régimen corrupto y hostil de Maduro en Venezuela se aferra a un sueño falso y visión anticuados de la región que ya ha sido un fracaso para...
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The Latin America crisis for 2018
This what has been added to the brew:- Venezuela's corrupt narco dictatorship is imploding. Only two things can support it: the increased murderous repression that we are seeing, and exiles which are...
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