France versus Venezuela: human rights in and human rights out
Today the French parliament gave its final vote for the "mariage pour tous", all can marry who they want. Today the Venezuelan parliament did not reopen its doors because its head, Diosdado Cabello,...
View ArticleChavismo has lost any democratic character, if it ever had one
One nice thing about Chavez was that we could measure the democratic content of chavismo by looking at him. Since on very rare instances Chavez had a democratic word, we could assume that perhaps...
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Wednesday fluff post
Apparently I am between Nelson Mandela and François Hollande.... For fun I took a "political compass" test and unsurprising I came left/libertarian.My score, I am not surprised and already through the...
View ArticleTaking the gloves off: Capriles tells explicitly that Maduro stole the election
I did not know how to title this entry but scanning for background before typing it I thought that an adaption of Spain' El Pais would do. Because this is exactly what Capriles has done tonight: he has...
View ArticleCapriles officially does not recognize the election result
You may say that there is no surprise there, but the intention of last night special TV show of Capriles was to announce officially that under the conditions set by the CNE the opposition will not...
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Electoral fraud mode confirmed: it is in who voted, how many times they...
Wrecking her life work at the very end,and in pink innocent girl!It came as no surprise a few minutes ago: the CNE has announced that the audit it will allow DOES NOT include the books where voters...
View ArticleChavismo: from XXI century socialism to XXI century fascism
Perhaps it is inaccurate to start a post on ideology pretending that chavismo is one. There is no such thing as "chavismo" besides the unconditional love and tolerance of his groupies for any inaneness...
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XXI century fascism in full blown action in Venezuela
Representatives Machado and Borges after a working dayLittle did I know that the post I finished Sunday, to let up for a few days, would be proven prophetic 48 hours later, as reader Luis F already...
View ArticleOn the road today...
... but Sylvio and Fausta managed to get me in Barquismeto for a quickie but goodie podcast.See you tomorrow, when I am back in San Felipe and can discuss more of what is going on.PS: Maria Corina...
View ArticleLife in the era of Youtube: old 1999 video shows the early brutality of Maduro
Oh dear.... People are unearthing stuff in Youtube and this one is a little gem, showing a younger Maduro beating up a Representative in 1999. Plus ça change et plus c'est la même chose.
View ArticleBBC "imprecision": who is at fault, the lousy journalists or the Capriles/CSB...
When I read the account of the BBC for the latest "punch up" in Venezuela's assembly I have to wonder about whether the journalist(s) in charge are clueless or biased pro Maduro; or the press folks at...
View ArticleThe Maduro "election" is officially challenged (impugnada), and so is the...
As promised we just read that the Henrique Capriles has officially challenged/impugnado the election of April 14. he did that by sending the Comando Simon Bolivar, his electoral organization, to the...
View ArticleFor foreign non-illustrated media and chavista supporters: chavismo media...
Since there is right now a cadena that silences a Capriles press conference that I was planning to live tweet, I decided that I might as well write the current situation of the media in Venezuela. Two...
View ArticleWho minds the Realm?
The decomposition of the regime goes apace. These last couple of days we peeled off yet another myth: that Maduro had an inkling on diplomacy. After all, he had been Chavez foreign secretary for more...
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The brave new opposition ledership
Tonight it was mandatory for all who could watch it, the interview of Maria Corina Machado on Globovision, with Nitu Perez. Globovision knows when it has a hit, as it has already the 4 segments...
View ArticleThe opposition challenges 2,320,490 votes of April 14 (15.4% votes cast,...
A few days ago Capriles challenged the whole election.Today, there were quite a few voting centers which results of April 14 where directly challenged. In short, what the opposition demands is that the...
View ArticleMaduro is looking for food.... A primer on food crisis in Venezuela
I am not making this up: Maduro, the pseudo-president of Venezuela has justified his trip to Uruguay with this excuse among others:“Parte clave de la gira que yo arranco mañana (...) es para garantizar...
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Massive shortages of corn flour in Venezuela
Line at a La32, a Chinese everything jointThis week we have seen dramatic shortages of the Venezuelan basic staple, at least outside of Caracas and in low income social classes: corn flour. Newspapers...
View ArticleCatastrophic news for the regime: Inflation at 4.3% and RCTV revenge
The regime got two major knockdowns today.It had to admit, confess, after a week delay, that inflation for April was 4.3%. Think about this: how many countries in the world have an ANNUAL inflation...
View ArticleWill the Venezuelan regime dare to put Polar on the scaffold?
I was on the road today and only tonight did I get the latest idiocies of the regime. This one must feel quite a lot of heat to consider taking over Polar, the largest private company in Venezuela,...
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