Assessing the non-assessable (word?)
I am having a hard time to return to regular blogging. One of the reasons is what to write about. Certainly themes are abundant but the big problem here is what for? Do I have at this time still to...
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Please! Export something! Anything!
The good thing about having "contacts" and clients in the real world is that they are sometimes invited to real meetings with the representatives of the regimes where neither economists nor journalists...
View ArticleAre there simple measures to stop provisionally Venezuela's slide into major...
I was thinking that after my post yesterday on how the regime has no clue as to what to do to boost exports, it would be fair for the readers of this blog to list what could be the bare, minimal...
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Not holding my breath over corruption
socialist coruptionToday we read that Maduro gloated yesterday on his fight against corruption by having arrested the custom tax collector of La Guaira. We are told they found 4 millions in cash in his...
View ArticleWhy there is no "latino american spring", and certainly not in Venezuela
When you watch all that had happened in Arabic countries and what happened in Turkey recently, amen of the diverse "take" groups from NewYork to Puerta del Sol, you may wonder why is it that in Latin...
View ArticleDreams of constitutional repression
That ever self serving pseudo panacea of our sub continent, calling for a constitutional assembly to solve problems that politicians have no resolve to deal with directly, is being invoked all around....
View ArticleDOMA doom
For my US friends! A day to rejoice, infamous DOMA has been killed by the Supreme Court. And states can now have valid marriage for all. Only about 30 something more states to go and you will catch up...
View ArticleEl descenso de los Trabajos de Ascenso
No he escrito nada todavía sobre la crisis de la educación superior que atraviesa Venezuela estos días. Para empezar es la misma crisis que se vive desde hace una década, solo exacerbada por la...
View ArticleMaria Corina Machado victim of a Cuban character assassination technique...
Today the fascisto-communist regime of Venezuela (your pick!) has crossed a new line. Maria Corina Machado, noted Venezuelan National Assembly representative, former primary candidate, one of the main...
View ArticleMajoritarianism is not true democracy
A remarkable, for its simplicity and to the point article from The Economist. The core quote:... this is a matter of rules and institutions to constrain a leader’s power and to allow the aggrieved to...
View ArticleBrinkmanship and fatherland: will Maduro charge against students tomorrow?
One thing quite remarkable, in a perverse way, is that since we are told that Maduro has assumed power last December, no major decision has been taken by the regime, outside of a devaluation that came...
View ArticleThe fascist methodology in mind games: Jose Vicente Rangel
It is one thing to read the everyday fascistic acts the regime resorts to on a daily basis, it is another to live through it and to watch how the minds are affected. Today, at my occasional week day...
View ArticleSnowed in Caracas
I hope you will forgive me the bad pun of the title but this is a little bit the feel these days. Under the blizzard of news, most more ridiculous than the preceding one, I feel like I am trapped,...
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Chavez golden-red boys: Temir Porras as a poster case
Porras and palsPerhaps the most interesting read this Sunday was El Nacional investigation on Temir Porras, the man Maduro seems to trust the most these days. The importance of this article is not...
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Snowden renders media idiotic
And CNN is among the top in their obsession with headlines, driving them to draw a map of Snowden options.At least that map illustrates quite well the idiocy that Snowden committed. In green the states...
View ArticleIn non Snowden news: Venezuelan inflation for June is 4.7%
That is right, good news!!!! After a 6% in May now we are down to 4.7% inflation for June! Expect the regime to gloat on that, they is enough stupid around for some of them to say it so.That gives us...
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In Snowden less news: murder of a fireman and nationalization of Venezuelan...
As if the regime hadn't enough fronts open, it has decided to control the prices of the medical services offered by private clinics. And the insurance companies promptly approved saying that they will...
View ArticleA Snowden free item: Globovision is forgiven by the TSJ
Imagine that! Globovision, the mush harassed news channel, finally won one! The chavismo controlled high court decided that a fine imposed on Globovision was too high and decided to halve it.The...
View ArticleA piece of Venezuelan ridicule where Snowden actually played a part.
In the series "It is a good thing that people do not die from ridicule" Iris Varela gives us new evidence today. The minister for prisons, who a few days ago was proven useless once again as the "pran"...
View ArticleThe 1000 years Reich, chavista version by Maduro
Today Maduro, believing that his trip to Mercosur was a glowing success, went to Apure where he said this:"Qué nadie se equivoque aquí somos chavistas hasta la médula. Yo soy el primer presidente...
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