Monthly Archives: February 2006

Well, the oil sabers they are a’rattlin’ again as Chavez’s Oil Tsar Rafael Ramírez resumes threats to start selling Venezuelan oil to China instead of the US. The threat seems formidable, but only if you studiously avoid thinking through its … Continue reading →

Well, the oil sabers they are a’rattlin’ again as Chavez’s Oil Tsar Rafael Ramírez resumes threats to start selling Venezuelan oil to China instead of the US. The threat seems formidable, but only if you studiously avoid thinking through its … Continue reading →

Well, it’s carnival now, so in the season’s spirit of reckless abandon I’ll break all my rules and post something that has absolutely nothing to do with Venezuela. This piece is from The New Republic and I’m reprinting it simply … Continue reading →

Well, it’s carnival now, so in the season’s spirit of reckless abandon I’ll break all my rules and post something that has absolutely nothing to do with Venezuela. This piece is from The New Republic and I’m reprinting it simply … Continue reading →

There’s tremendous pathos in this El Universal story about the creme de la creme of the Living Dead Opposition making 10 “demands” for improved electoral conditions before they’ll participate in December’s presidential elections. For one thing, Accion Democratica doesn’t seem … Continue reading →

There’s tremendous pathos in this El Universal story about the creme de la creme of the Living Dead Opposition making 10 “demands” for improved electoral conditions before they’ll participate in December’s presidential elections. For one thing, Accion Democratica doesn’t seem … Continue reading →

I liked this Stratfor piece for its clear-eyed, myth-busting perspective. Friedman argues, quite convincingly if you ask me, that for all the day-to-day diplomatic heat, a cool-headed, realist calculus shows that Venezuela is not really a geopolitical problem for the … Continue reading →

I liked this Stratfor piece for its clear-eyed, myth-busting perspective. Friedman argues, quite convincingly if you ask me, that for all the day-to-day diplomatic heat, a cool-headed, realist calculus shows that Venezuela is not really a geopolitical problem for the … Continue reading →

I liked this Stratfor piece for its clear-eyed, myth-busting perspective. Friedman argues, quite convincingly if you ask me, that for all the day-to-day diplomatic heat, a cool-headed, realist calculus shows that Venezuela is not really a geopolitical problem for the … Continue reading →

Teodoro Petkoff writes this spicy Tal Cual editorial on Carabobo Governor Luis Felipe Acosta Carles’s delirious sycophancy after he took out these mammoth billboards all over the country – including in Caracas, miles and miles from his state: Fun bits: … Continue reading →

Teodoro Petkoff writes this spicy Tal Cual editorial on Carabobo Governor Luis Felipe Acosta Carles’s delirious sycophancy after he took out these mammoth billboards all over the country – including in Caracas, miles and miles from his state: Fun bits: … Continue reading →

Teodoro Petkoff writes this spicy Tal Cual editorial on Carabobo Governor Luis Felipe Acosta Carles’s delirious sycophancy after he took out these mammoth billboards all over the country – including in Caracas, miles and miles from his state: Fun bits: … Continue reading →

Read all about it!! OK, so they’re seven years late, and they’re only reviving an old PDVSA idea, but still, chavismo wants to restart the Natural Gas for Vehicles (GNV) program. The GNV Program is brilliant any way you look … Continue reading →

Read all about it!! OK, so they’re seven years late, and they’re only reviving an old PDVSA idea, but still, chavismo wants to restart the Natural Gas for Vehicles (GNV) program. The GNV Program is brilliant any way you look … Continue reading →

Why is it that Chavez’s government can’t seem to learn? I think it’s worth pondering the way revolutionary dogmatism, conditioned by an automatic assumption that all criticism is animated by a hidden agenda, feeds into intolerance of dissent, leaving the … Continue reading →