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One of the added benefits of having read Geology is that one can easily tell apart the bullshit from the science when it comes to earth’s matters. In recent days I participated in an online…

To those who like me have been reporting the evolving crisis in Venezuela the news came as no surprise: Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is, to put it mildly, utterly unreliable. It…

The business of determining what Venezuelan political event will be picked up by major international news outlets is tricky. The communist State of Venezuela has become a place where not two weeks go by without…

Londres 05.03.07 | Hugo dijo ayer que lo querían matar. Otra vez. Que vaina. Hugo nos tiene acostumbrados a los anuncios de magnicidio. Cada vez que se acuerda de que los sicarios de la CIA…

A statistical study done by two Venezuelan scientists, Maria M. Febres Cordero and Bernardo Marquez, has determined that Hugo Chavez alleged victory in the recall referendum of 2004 was unlikely. The reports concludes by saying…

A phone call from ITV News desk yesterday morning brought me back to the Venezuelan reality. Frankly I was completely unaware that bus driver cum Venezuela’s Foreign Secretary Nicolas Maduro was to sign the disgraceful…

It finally came to be: the oil for propaganda agreement between dictator Hugo Chavez and Red Ken has been signed. In spite of all the criticism, in spite of the fact that London’s poor are…