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E Gibberish Unum 27 Aug 2013 | 05:33 pm
Some days, this self-parody we have masquerading as a government is just too awesome for words…like when its “inspirational revolutionary murals” forget to replace the dummy text before they go to pri...
Grabación de mi Blogotaller desde Bucaramanga 27 Aug 2013 | 12:28 am
La primera sesión fue bien divertida. La grabación está aquí.
The government’s ombudsman 26 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
One of the new state institutions created in the 1999 Constitution was the figure of the People’s Ombudsman, in charge of defending citizens’ rights against the state. Fourteen years after its creatio...
Prannation Redux 26 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
So, when the Sabaneta prison “pran” (I never know how to translate that…”prison gang dictator”?) and the Sabaneta prison warden disagree, who gets his way? Care to venture a guess? Las conversaciones ...
Golden Oldies 25 Aug 2013 | 12:40 pm
And so, one year on, the Winner in the Amuay Explosion Excuse Category, mención Transparently-Fabricated-but-Damnit-We’re-Sticking-With-Our-Story is… [envelope-rustling...] Sabotage! Well how about th...
Bucaramanga Calling 25 Aug 2013 | 11:47 am
So, I’ll be hawking the book at ULibro, la Feria del Libro de Bucaramanga in Colombia all next week. Around for that? Write in and and we’ll have coffee.
“We’re not going to sully ourselves in the cesspool of the government camp” says Capriles as he hands out free goodies to his supporters… 24 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
Yesterday’s Capriles event in Rio Chico, narrowcast live on Capriles.tv, has more or less completed the full-body existential funk I’ve been inhabiting recently. Talking to a small audience of support...
I Got the Eudomar Blues 23 Aug 2013 | 03:17 pm
Last week, when Eudomar Tovar was named Central Bank head, lots was said about the new breed of Merentes-backed “pragmatists” in the nation’s top economic policy-making posts, with Tovar seen as a wel...
Como va viniendo vamos mintiendo… 22 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
Mindful of the need to establish credibility in his new, high-profile job, BCV-president Eudomar Santos Tovar wasted no time telling a massive, disprovable-with-a-five-second-google-search whopper of ...
The government’s poll numbers are garish (now that it doesn’t matter) 22 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
Credit where credit is due. People say chavismo is terrible at planning, but it just isn’t true: the double-time dismantling of what was left of Venezuela’s democratic institutions came just in time. ...
