26S en la BBC
Esta tarde recibí una llamada de Martin Vennard, quien me preguntó si podía comentar sobre las elecciones legislativas en Venezuela para la BBC World Service, a lo cual accedí. Inicialmente hablamos un poco de la…
UK’s Labour Party turns rojo, rojito
Well, the smart money lost the bet. The election of a Conservative government, after 13 years of Labour rule, got the radicals all worked up: Ed Miliband has just been elected as Labour’s new party…
Qué pasa si la oposición gana la asamblea en Venezuela?
Mi esposa, quien aunque sigue los acontecimientos políticos de nuestro país desde saludable distancia no deja de estar al tanto, me preguntó en estos días: «¿Y qué pasa si la oposición gana las elecciones de…
Leader of Hezbollah Venezuela exposes electoral roll flaws
I’m reading a book about an alleged infiltration into the world of transnational terrorism by an undercover Spanish journalist that goes by the name of Antonio Salas. While I am not prepared to take everything written…
El Candidato
– Que bolas! – I know. – En qué coño están pensando estos tipos? Tu crees que hablar de dinero inorgánico es la manera de convencer a la gente de que voten por el candidato?…
Hugo Chavez threatens Electoral Chief
In Venezuela, elections stopped being free and fair a long time ago. In this latest episode, Hugo Chavez threatens Electoral Chief Vicente Diaz -in a five-member board the only one who’s not openly chavista- stating…
The Guardian’s censorship
The Guardian’s Comment is Free has published an article by fellow blogger Francisco Toro. One can get a flavour of the prevailing mentality of people commenting about it, with arguments such as «I am shocked that…
Crime in Venezuela: 21,132 homicides in 2009
Thanks to the kind soul that sent me the official crime report, made by Venezuela’s Institute of National Statistics (INE), I can see that whoever wrote about it at El Nacional, seems to have gotten the…
Caracas: Rotten Town
Thanks to Juan I found out about an amazing video, by Venezuelan singer Juan David Chacón, known in the music world as Onechot. There’s very little to add to his extremely powerful video, aptly entitled…
Censorship in Venezuela
Texto de medida cautelar: «Se prohíbe al diario El Nacional la publicación de imágenes, informaciones y publicidad de cualquier tipo con contenido de sangre, armas, mensajes de terror, agresiones físicas, imágenes que aticen contenidos de guerra…