Chavistas en Inglaterra
Vamos a estar claros en una vaina: chavistas hay por todos lados. En Venezuela, evolucionaron de ser una masa acéfala de simples resentidos sociales -pre 1998- a tener una denominación, bien definida, enmarcada dentro del…
Ken Livingstone in bed with Chavez and… with Gaddafi!
Colonel Gadaffi seems to the running out of friends . His gross human rights violations of late have galvanised all sides of the political spectrum, in their condemnation of atrocities in Libya . There is,…
Smartmatic revisited
In June 2003, the Venezuelan government bought through an intermediary, Omar Montilla Castillo, a 28% participation in a company called Bizta R&D Software C.A. for 300 million Bolivares . Bizta was owned by Antonio Mugica and the…
Mark Weisbrot: Hugo Chavez’s last propagandist standing
Mark Weisbrot in Caracas, fawning over Hugo Chavez and his Hollywood apologist Sean Penn. Photo source AP. We already know that propaganda agents of Hugo Chavez resent being identified as such. From Gregory Wilpert, a once…
Julian Assange prefiere a Lukashenko sobre medios de Venezuela
Existe un record de mi posición con respecto a Julian Assange, y su Wikileaks. Lo que no había publicado, hasta ahora, es que traté de hacer contactos con Assange, y gente de su organización, para…
ETA killer de Juana Chaos located hiding in Venezuela
Iñaki de Juana Chaos, the ETA killer who jumped bail in Ireland and disappeared, is apparently living in Venezuela, with his partner, according to news published in Spanish media. De Juana Chaos served 21 years…
Gadaffi brings in dictator Chavez to ‘pacify’ Libya
In the latest example of just how utterly fucked up our world is, Libyan tyrant Gadaffi has accepted a ‘peace proposal’ from his Venezuelan chum Hugo Chavez. Peace, the Venezuelan military dictator will bring. Peace.…
Hugo Chavez enablers [Updated]
A propos of the mess in the Middle East, Daniel has an interesting post about enablers. While I do not agree with his views regarding what the future holds for Europe, Brazil and the USA…
Miguel Octavio leaves Venezuela
The routine does not change: get up, head to the bathroom, get dressed, open laptop, read emails, check Miguel’s, Daniel’s, Francisco’s blogs, then Google News Venezuela page. After that, normal life takes over for the…
Agnotología: otra definición del chavismo
Leyendo un articulo en Caracas Chronicles sobre Agnotología, que ha sido definida como «the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data», o «el estudio de la ignorancia inducida culturalmente…