Monthly Archives: November 2002

Anglophone escuálido bloggers of the world, unite! …you have only your crappy low hit-counts to lose… My friend Tony Guzmán Blanco brought two new sources for news and views on the telenovela that is life under Chávez to my attention … Continue reading →

Anglophone escuálido bloggers of the world, unite! …you have only your crappy low hit-counts to lose… My friend Tony Guzmán Blanco brought two new sources for news and views on the telenovela that is life under Chávez to my attention … Continue reading →

We’re all radicals now Yeah, yeah, so four days ago I wrote a long, rambling blog entry explaining why the general strike was going to fail. But, cripes, it’s Venezuela! Four days are an eternity here. In the meantime, the … Continue reading →

We’re all radicals now Yeah, yeah, so four days ago I wrote a long, rambling blog entry explaining why the general strike was going to fail. But, cripes, it’s Venezuela! Four days are an eternity here. In the meantime, the … Continue reading →

There’s nonsense, there’s hard-core nonsense, and then there’s chavista nonsense. The government’s public statements over the last few days have reached such amazing levels of internal contradiction it’s hard to know what to even say about them anymore. The ultimate … Continue reading →

There’s nonsense, there’s hard-core nonsense, and then there’s chavista nonsense. The government’s public statements over the last few days have reached such amazing levels of internal contradiction it’s hard to know what to even say about them anymore. The ultimate … Continue reading →

This strike doesn’t have a chance… The big news these days is that, last week, the coordinadora democrática (the big umbrella group that speaks for maybe 95% of the opposition) called a General Strike for next Monday, December 2nd. It’s … Continue reading →

This strike doesn’t have a chance… The big news these days is that, last week, the coordinadora democrática (the big umbrella group that speaks for maybe 95% of the opposition) called a General Strike for next Monday, December 2nd. It’s … Continue reading →

The juiciest scandal nobody is writing about… Ask people in Caracas what or where Las Cristinas is, and mostly you’ll get blank stares back. It’s a specialist concern, this Las Cristinas thing, with most Venezuelans totally unaware that one of … Continue reading →

The juiciest scandal nobody is writing about… Ask people in Caracas what or where Las Cristinas is, and mostly you’ll get blank stares back. It’s a specialist concern, this Las Cristinas thing, with most Venezuelans totally unaware that one of … Continue reading →

Powergrab What a difference seven days make. A week ago, the political scene was dominated by talk of parliamentary procedures, after the government attempted a questionable move to rewrite the new Elections Law. Now, after the partial militarization of the … Continue reading →

Powergrab What a difference seven days make. A week ago, the political scene was dominated by talk of parliamentary procedures, after the government attempted a questionable move to rewrite the new Elections Law. Now, after the partial militarization of the … Continue reading →

Shit + Fan = Right now Well, I’d been forecasting it for weeks, but still I was a little shocked when it happened. The government has moved on the Metropolitan Police. It was obvious that they wouldn’t tolerate a large, … Continue reading →

Shit + Fan = Right now Well, I’d been forecasting it for weeks, but still I was a little shocked when it happened. The government has moved on the Metropolitan Police. It was obvious that they wouldn’t tolerate a large, … Continue reading →

They keep getting caught… It happened again yesterday. For the Nth time. A small but bellicose pro-government mob showed up at the Metropolitan City Hall (Alfredo Peña’s office) to block the last open entrance, leaving the Mayor and a bunch … Continue reading →