Monthly Archives: May 2006

Come to watch this roundtable on Wednesday (day after tomorrow) at 4:00 pm: Latin America in the Spotlight & 40th Anniversary of IDS Roundtable Politics in Latin America: deconstructing the meanings of the Left and the implications for the region’s … Continue reading →

Come to watch this roundtable on Wednesday (day after tomorrow) at 4:00 pm: Latin America in the Spotlight & 40th Anniversary of IDS Roundtable Politics in Latin America: deconstructing the meanings of the Left and the implications for the region’s … Continue reading →

In this seven minute podcast, I try to explain how the Velásquez Alvaray scandal fits in with the Anderson Case, and North American Opinion Research’s Julio Makarem’s role in the affair.

In this seven minute podcast, I try to explain how the Velásquez Alvaray scandal fits in with the Anderson Case, and North American Opinion Research’s Julio Makarem’s role in the affair.

In this seven minute podcast, I try to explain how the Velásquez Alvaray scandal fits in with the Anderson Case, and North American Opinion Research’s Julio Makarem’s role in the affair.

I start looking through the opposition press this morning thinking, “hmmmmm, I wonder what else they have on the LVA meta-scandal?” System boot. Click, click. Funny – it’s off El Universal’s front page. Ok, maybe El Nacional…nope, tiny little refrito … Continue reading →

I start looking through the opposition press this morning thinking, “hmmmmm, I wonder what else they have on the LVA meta-scandal?” System boot. Click, click. Funny – it’s off El Universal’s front page. Ok, maybe El Nacional…nope, tiny little refrito … Continue reading →

Wow. Just wow. In the time it takes to give a single, nitro-charged press conference, the Luis Velásquez Alvaray Affaire has morphed into the Mother of All Scandals, the Meta-scandal that all the little scandals fit into. The LVA Affaire … Continue reading →

Wow. Just wow. In the time it takes to give a single, nitro-charged press conference, the Luis Velásquez Alvaray Affaire has morphed into the Mother of All Scandals, the Meta-scandal that all the little scandals fit into. The LVA Affaire … Continue reading →

Katy says: Supreme Tribunal justice and former chavista congressman Luis Velásquez Alvaray (LVA), who was one of the main architects of last year’s Supreme Tribunal Law that gave the government the power to pack the courts, has been suspended pending … Continue reading →

Katy says: Supreme Tribunal justice and former chavista congressman Luis Velásquez Alvaray (LVA), who was one of the main architects of last year’s Supreme Tribunal Law that gave the government the power to pack the courts, has been suspended pending … Continue reading →

The “Republican” (ha!) “Moral” (guffaw!) Council has suspended Luis Velásquez Alvaray from the Supreme Tribunal…incrimination counteroffensive imminent…kick back and enjoy the show…

The “Republican” (ha!) “Moral” (guffaw!) Council has suspended Luis Velásquez Alvaray from the Supreme Tribunal…incrimination counteroffensive imminent…kick back and enjoy the show…

The “Republican” (ha!) “Moral” (guffaw!) Council has suspended Luis Velásquez Alvaray from the Supreme Tribunal…incrimination counteroffensive imminent…kick back and enjoy the show…

After years and years of broadly sympathetic coverage, the New York Times’ Juan Forero writes a mildly critical piece on Chavez amazing backfiring hemispheric strategy and guess who doesn’t like it one bit… Then, the opposition wins a couple of … Continue reading →