Announcement and open thread
Blogging will be very erratic for the next three weeks, thus....... I am doing a first time experience. I will have an open thread, with moderation as I hope that I will be at least able to check the...
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The Waldoniel bad weather trip
Bad weather requires comfort foods and this is on one is at one of my most hallowed joints, never missed.The second picture cannot be nicer because I have not seen the sun in three days. Still, you...
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Maduro is a fascist idiot, the worst kind because they are cruel by sport
Lorenzo Mendoza promoting his competition? Harina PAN all alone in the middle....So tonight finally I checked out a few headlines and sure enough there is just too many idiocies that I cannot go to bed...
View ArticleWaldoniel History Walk
There is this little video of a typical walk during this trip: wind, rain, cold, like a November in May. I will give a full explanation later. Enjoy your speculations.And you certainly will agree that...
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An example of economic failure
Going around I came in front of this shelf that hit me like a rock, reminding me how bad Venezuela has become. See, after 14 years of chavismo we have no more toilet paper, no more corn meal, no more...
View ArticleMario Silva and our daily abjection
So, apparently, this week scandal in Caracas is an illegal wiretapping of a conversation between Mario Silva and some Cuban G2 operative. The good thing about being away and writing on it late is that,...
View ArticleDo they have toilet paper in Pyongyang?
Away from news a quick check tells me that the bolibanana republic has launched a refurbished missile from the 70ies.... And the refurbished missile was refurbished with Venezuelan technology and Cuban...
View ArticleGlobovision last gasp?
It looks like the end of Globovision as we knew it is at hand. The top group of journalists is fired or resigning and the network new owners have decided after their meeting with the regime to stop...
View ArticleCapriles in Bogota, or yet more evidence of a failed Brazilian imperialist...
There is no need to expand on the diplomatic fiasco that Maduro's "new" team has suffered from Bogota this week. What is more interesting to note is that were Brazilian foreign policy a success, it...
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Sweet and Sour France
A chapel for fishermen (click to enlarge)There is sweet living in France, in spite of the crisis. And yet I have more mixed feelings this time around.The stay is in a fancy resort area of France where...
View ArticleBack home and it got worse
The strangest thing upon my return home is that things visibly deteriorated in a mere 3 weeks. I am not talking about the physical degradation of the country, I am talking about the general mood, the...
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Food card rationing, XXI century style
The mind reels.The government of Zulia state has announced that a new system to control purchases will be set in place sometime in June. Although full details are not available yet, we must assume that...
View ArticleMedia shopping and its future use
We are in an economic crisis of increasing dramatic proportions and yet "groups of investors" are buying media groups.... A few weeks ago it was Globovision, and this week it is the Cadena Capriles,...
View ArticleThe big inflation mystery: 6% or worse?
So, we are on June 5th and May inflation numbers are not out. It is not idle to remind the reader that when Chavez was alive sometimes, when convenient, the Central Bank was able to post inflation...
View ArticleMario Silva viewed by Alma Guillermoprieto
You know that a Venezuelan "miscellaneous" has made it big when Alma Guillermoprieto has taken the time to listen and dissect it.
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Can the Venezuelan parliamentary opposition resist fascism pressure?
Heliodoro in his credibility salad daysWe treated yesterday to yet another vaudeville scene from the Venezuelan parliament. Juan Carlos Caldera, a Primero Justicia representative that was chastised...
View ArticleDo you want to know how XXI century fascism work? Listen to Diego Arria on Bayly
What is most interesting about the interview of Diego Aria at the Jaime Bayly talk show off Miami is not what he says: we all know these things. What is fascinating is that he says it and he can return...
View ArticleNATO nattering nags Brazil
I could have never wished for a post to be validated so fast, a week later. Last Saturday I was wondering about what part of the Capriles visit in Bogota may have been linked to Colombia sending a...
View Article18 aviones, una plasta
La ultima intervención televisiva de Jose Vicente Rangel nos dice mas sobre el poco respeto que tiene el régimen hacia sus seguidores que sobre amenaza alguna del régimen. El tipo se le ocurrió decir...
View ArticleErdogan, Assad and Aung San Suu Kyi in Caracas
UPDATEDThe news these days offer many a temptation to draw cheap parallelisms to Venezuela situation. But those in the title of this entry are far from being a parallel though they could help explain...
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