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Friday, July 13, 2007

Persecution in PDVSA: more political apartheid in Venezuela

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This is Wednesday editorial of Tal Cual where Teodoro Petkoff denounces once again that the government of Chavez is purging any public emplo...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Religious wars in Venezuela

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Readers familiar to this blog might remember my tenet that chavismo has become more like a religious cult than a political movement. The la...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

RCTV comes back, sort of, while Globovision fights back to stay

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This weekend the rumor of an eventual return of RCTV were confirmed: I saw it myself Saturday AM when on my Direct TV screen I saw the RCTV ...
Monday, July 09, 2007

Housing in Venezuela: propaganda and reality

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Most visitors to Venezuela for the Copa America entered through Caracas Airport in Maiquetia. One of the first propaganda signs they would ...
Friday, July 06, 2007

Colombia fights back, and it is only starting

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There was an election today in Colombia and the FARC lost by landslide. In every major city of Colombia hundreds thousands of people , all ...
Monday, July 02, 2007

Copa America: the good, the bad and the ugly

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Over two weeks ago I wrote my reasons to take a passive boycott of the Copa America now running in Venezuela. No need to explain this agai...
Sunday, July 01, 2007

What to do with 5 submarines? Attack Mercosur?

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So, as usual, Chavez announces some monstrosity (buying 9 Russian submarines), generates some brouhaha, and then settles for less (5 Russian...