Tag Archives: Venezuela

Statist control of food supply in Venezuela and the US: Different in form, equal in substance

Posted on August 26, 2010 by afurth

While Hugo Chavez’s latest move towards state-owned food distribution translate into thousands of tons of rotten food, with the concomitant billions of taxpayer dollars wasted (and/or appropriated by the kleptocrats) of the regime, things in the US don’t look much … Continue reading →

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Onechot’s “Rotten Town” on the horror of Caracas’ street violence

Posted on August 24, 2010 by afurth

Not that I shouldn’t have expected it from the sort of people that for years have banned the publication of official murder statistics in my country, but Hugo Chavez censoring this video, which so eloquently denounces the nightmare of Caracas’ … Continue reading →

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Chavez may be an incompetent, autocratic and downright disastrous President, but there is little evidence that he is a significant supporter of the FARC or ELN

Posted on July 30, 2010 by afurth

A great piece by Pablo Rojas Mejía adds a bit of refreshing rationality to the disinformation war surrounding the latest political clash between Venezuela and Colombia: Many Uribistas were surprised when the international media and, to a lesser extent, the … Continue reading →

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26-year-old Venezuelan on Hugo Chavez’s video game ban

Posted on November 29, 2009 by afurth

In a guest essay published at Boing Boing, 26-year-old Guido Núñez-Mujica writes an extensive and poignant personal observation piece about a new law that widely criminalizes video games in Venezuela. Continue reading →

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