Chavez's "47 percent" moment
The comandante presidente said the following during a rally in Maturin: “There can be some people could be unsatisfied with the failures of our government, that the streets...
La memoria es frágil, infiel y tendenciosa
The above video is of Manuel Rosales’ closing march in Caracas, in 2006. It was a memorable, heavily-attended apotheosis of people. A few days later, Rosales lost the...
Signs of the Times
As Capriles closes his Caracas campaign with one big rally, you can’t help yourself from reading the tea-leaves in stories like this: 29 de septiembre de 2012.- Un...
Annals of chavista headline writing
Yesterday, two opposition activists were shot dead during a rally for Henrique Capriles in Chávez’s home state of Barinas. (Another died later) How did the international media reflect this...
"Best Voting System in the World" Chronicles
And now, this week in crazy: Luis Piedra, director de la Oficina de Planificación y Organismos Subalternos del CNE, anunció que el partido político Unidad Democrática decidió apoyar...
Suddenly, it's Chávez playing into our narrative
Capriles has spent the last few months working to portray Chávez as out-of-touch with “the concerns of people like you”: a guy who let power get to his...
The real star
As I watch this video that summarizes the unadulterated emotion of the Capriles campaign, I keep thinking it has only one real star: the hat. When Tibisay Lucena...
As goes Valera, so goes the country
Henrique Capriles is holding a massive rally in the small city of Valera, a place I’m sure many caraqueños have driven past a number of times but never...
Margarita Airport users can't get a break
The situation at the Santiago Mariño International Airport (which serves Margarita Island) has not improved after its recent change of management. In fact, some problems are getting worse since...
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