Question on Venezuelan slang, probably terms of abuse: has anyone ever encountered the word *mamelotracios* in Spanish? Anyone know what it means? (Judging from context, it is likely that the answer would be NSFW.)

http://ift.tt/1dgSSmS Translation of “One Comrade Sounds Off: What’s Happening Now in Venezuela?” commentary by Victor Camacho (in EL LIBERT@RIO)

More from Venezuela, including a very useful “Quick Overview of the Situation in Venezuela for the Curious and Ill-informed” by Rafael Uzcategui: http://ift.tt/1f9Vbba On human rights issues in the detention of protesters: http://ift.tt/1p9ddTA

Abolish the FBI.

Because they are police officers. #AbolishThePolice

To-day @ Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com]: What are Venezuelan anarchists saying about the protests and the “revolutionary” government’s counter-attacks? Here’s a couple of protest report-backs from the Venezuelan anarchist newspaper EL LIBERTARIO, with rough-and-ready translations into English. Hopefully more coming soon. http://ift.tt/1dWdqW4 http://ift.tt/1d9a7Xg

is translating news from Venezuela while drinking Colombian coffee

Fun facts about dead presidents: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, beloved in the memory of political Progressives, romantic nationalists, and militarists throughout USAmerican culture,* did this to innocent people. #APAB

#AbolishThePolice

This is only the tip of the iceberg, for this one detective even. Let alone for the NYPD. #AbolishThePolice