Santos pummels Mockus (updated twice)
We all but predicted Antanas Mockus would coast to victory in the Colombian election, but Colombia’s voters had another plan. Today, in the first round of voting, Colombian...
Where we live
A few days ago, I wrote a piece for the Venezuelan Internet magazine Prodavinci on the importance of property rights in Venezuela’s poor barrios. (Click here if you’d...
Journey into the Middle of the Night
France’s L’Express news weekly publishes this chilling photo-essay stemming from a police ride-along in Petare. [Hat tip: EE]
Government by Force, coming to a hospital corridor near you
A while back, when I was writing about the jailing of Oswaldo Álvarez Paz, a reader who spends a lot of time in Petare wrote in to tell...
Economy Crashes, Government Rejoices
Yesterday marked another insane low in the festering of Hugo Chávez’s Revolution. In the process of slamming the opposition for supposedly rejoicing over the first quarter drop in...
Chavenomics Headscratcher: (5 + 4.9)/2 = 5.8 (UPDATED)
By now you’ve seen the hair-raising numbers: Venezuelan GDP plunged 5.8%, year on year, in the first quarter. The detail that got me, though, was this: according to...
Chabuki watch, #3 (updated)
Former taxman José Vielma Mora will now be known as something other than "the only chavista who is semi-competent": a traitor to the Revolution! Here is Vielma Mora’s...
Wiki-constutionalism
The New Republic’s website has a nice article by Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez on the tendency in Latin America to write and re-write our Constitutions, a phenomenon he cleverly calls...
They're not even trying anymore
Seen this morning on the National Assembly website: tons of information about the governing PSUV party, not much on the institution itself or the work they claim to...
Six Terrorist Training Camps Around Caracas?
If the extraordinary allegations in this documentary book pan out, we’re through the looking glass here. El Palestino comes out on Tuesday. The journo who wrote it, Antonio Salas,...
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