—Chavez has had 118 different Ministers in his nine years in office. Of the twelve people appointed to teh Cabinet yesterday, three are woman and six out of the other nine are former military. Five of them had been Ministers previously.
—In the Caracas morgue bodies are all over the place, including on the floors. A body was actually missing for three days according to the relatives. The Head of the intelligence police blames it all on the increase on the population.
—You can actually buy things almost for free with your Internet quota at the official rate of exchange. Two days ago I needed to buy some software that cost $60 in Amazon, or Bs. F. 129. However, the software has a rebate of $20, which at the parallel exchange rate corresponds to Bs. F. 112. Thus, I will get the software for exactly US$ 3.03 at the parallel rate of exchange once I get my rebate check.
—Five days after the monetary reconversion began, I have yet to know anyone that has seen one of the new coins. I get the feeling they are not even circulating in another triumph for the inefficiency of the revolution.
—After leading the National Assembly through a year with almost no new Bills approved and introducing 25 new articles to the proposed Constitutional change which likely doomed the proposal, Deputy Celia Flores was ratified today as President of the National Assembly for another year.
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