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Category Archives: International chavistas
Carito Chronicles
A guest submission by Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez, live from the Windy City. Yesterday, at DePaul University in Chicago, the following event was presented by the local Venezuelan consulate: The primary speakers were — rather fittingly — a couple of Cubans empowered … Continue reading
Posted in International chavistas
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The ethics of campaign consulting
It’s me vs. the Brazilians in this Simón Romero New York Times piece. The money quote: [Santana's] skills also came into focus in Venezuela, where both Mr. Chávez, who died of cancer last month, and his opponent, Henrique Capriles Radonski, hired … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, International chavistas
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Roy Chaderton joins the looney bin
In the last couple of weeks, it has become increasingly clear that the Maduro campaign has bought a one-way ticket on the Mental Express. In spite of this, a few chavista figureheads have stopped short of endorsing the campaign’s unabashed … Continue reading
Posted in International chavistas, Nicolas Maduro
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Radio Times on WHYY Philly
I spent an hour this morning across from George Ciccariello-Maher on Radio Times, a current affairs show from the NPR affiliate in Philadelphia, WHYY. It was easily the best radio show I’ve done in the last week.
Marco Aurélio García vs. Ernesto Villegas
One of Brazilian President Dilma Roussef’s top foreign policy advisors, Marco Aurélio García, has gone on the record saying nothing will happen on January 10th, since the government can just call a 90-day “temporary absence” under Article 234 of the Constitution, and … Continue reading
Posted in International chavistas, Politics
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Pepe ex machina?
Now this is interesting, Uruguayan president José Mujica will travel to Caracas on Wednesday, Montevideo daily El País has confirmed… The Uruguayan Senate plans to meet tomorrow Tuesday to authorize Mujica’s trip. Last Wednesday, Mujica cancelled a trip to Havana … Continue reading
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Pretty please, could our next radical left wing president be a little bit more like Pepe Mujica?
If Simón Romero’s profile doesn’t make you smile, you have no heart. Polls show that his approval ratings have been declining, but “I don’t give a damn,” insisted Mr. Mujica, emphasizing that he considered re-election to consecutive terms, already prohibited … Continue reading
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Bolivarian Awards 2012: The big winners
Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez joins us for a guest post today. Take it away, Daniel … “A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad … Continue reading
Posted in International chavistas, Nicolas Maduro
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Quico hits the New York Times Op-Ed page
A love letter to Brazil… As millions of Brazilians rose into the middle class, Mr. Chávez’s autocratic excesses came to look unnecessary and inexcusable to Venezuelans. Mr. da Silva and his successor, Dilma Rousseff, have shown that a country does … Continue reading
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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 head and now spends more time worrying about geostrategy and saving humanity … Continue reading
Just 3.5% in kickbacks?! Man, those Navantia guys are tough…
What does it say about Venezuela that when I read this story about Spanish shipbuilder Navantia paying €42 million in kickbacks for the contract to build those eight Venezuelan navy ships (one of which, alas, already ran aground off the … Continue reading
One day we’ll have tough investigative media…like Nicaragua does.
Nicaragua’s Confidencial magazine has the scoop on corruption in Albanisa – Alba de Nicaragua, S.A. – a binational firm created with Venezuelan state capital. Though Albanisa has expanded to sectors as varied as power generation, agro-exporting, construction, forestry, hotels and … Continue reading
The Last Word on the Torre de David’s Prize
…is the rodent’s.
Orwell-on-Guaire
That weird Orwellian vibe on State Media these days may be clear as day to Venezuelans, but it’s tough, very tough to get it across to a neutral. How do you put across, to somebody who hasn’t experienced it, the … Continue reading
Posted in International chavistas, Misiones
Tagged Communication Hegemony
Shutting the stable door after the horse has already been wounded, dragged out of an irrigation ditch, beaten, sodomized, shot and embalmed…
Muralista del 23 de enero…¡nunca cambies!
Posted in International chavistas
Tagged Libya
