Dragged Kicking-and-Screaming Into Clandestinity
The events in the Assembly today were deeply shocking. With dissident congresspeople now not merely barred from speaking, not merely deprived of their salaries but repeatedly physically assaulted, ...
Why go to the Circus when you have the AN?
While Maduro and his train of flunkies were busy governing watching a private Cirque du Soleil showing (and ticket holders are lined up out in the rain), the regularly...
Overheard at a Tool convention
It must be nice to work for Centro Internacional Miranda: get a hefty salary, spout off a bunch of clichés, and be bathed in the veneer of official...
The fate of Lácteos Los Andes
More than five years ago, Hugo Chávez announced that the government bought private dairy company Lácteos Los Andes, making it part of his “food sovereignty” plan, along with other...
Tim Tracy and the April connection
New Interior Minister Miguel Rodríguez Torres made public last week details about what he calls the “April connection”: an alleged plot where student groups were financed by an...
The flip side of Quico's post
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I lay out the reasons why Capriles has a case. My main point: One has to wonder: How could chavistas get away...
What happened this weekend
Say you’re challenged to a boxing match. As you approach the ring, you notice your opponent is not wearing any boxing gloves. He’s just bare-knuckle. And you’re gloved....
Public blackmail as State policy
The President of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, is a man who doesn’t beat around the bush. Case in point: his recent announcement that opposition legislators who refuse...
Burocracia o nada! (Updated)
Because having more than thirty Ministers, six Vice-Presidents and six Regional Coordinators was not enough for his Cabinet, Nicolas Maduro has now named three brand new Presidential Commisioners...
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