Berenjenal Chronicles
Guaicaipuro Lameda’s take on the here-and-now… For now, the opposition trumpets a precarious unity, shorn of political purpose, forced into being by reality and meant only to place...
Berenjenal Chronicles
Guaicaipuro Lameda’s take on the here-and-now… For now, the opposition trumpets a precarious unity, shorn of political purpose, forced into being by reality and meant only to place...
Groping for a Coherent Stance on CNE
The political opposition (i.e. the anti-Chavez political class) has painted itself into a strange corner over the upcoming elections. After months of saying there was massive fraud in...
Groping for a Coherent Stance on CNE
The political opposition (i.e. the anti-Chavez political class) has painted itself into a strange corner over the upcoming elections. After months of saying there was massive fraud in...
The Strong Oil Card is a Bluff
People see it as the “nuclear option” in Chávez’s escalating pissing match with the Americans. Chávez himself calls it his “strong oil card,” and likes to threaten to...
The Strong Oil Card is a Bluff
People see it as the “nuclear option” in Chávez’s escalating pissing match with the Americans. Chávez himself calls it his “strong oil card,” and likes to threaten to...
Venezuela Feverishly Strives for Axis of Evil Membership
Chavez, we have to conclude, will be bitterly disappointed if Venezuela doesn’t make the next Axis of Evil list. Really, he’s done everything he can think of: Make...
Venezuela Feverishly Strives for Axis of Evil Membership
Chavez, we have to conclude, will be bitterly disappointed if Venezuela doesn’t make the next Axis of Evil list. Really, he’s done everything he can think of: Make...
The blog is back!
Partly because I have a bit of time on my hands, partly because I just got a snazzy new net connection at home, but mostly because, erm…how to...
Getting technical on "forced disappearances"
Think Pinochet and Videla invented the “desaparición forzosa”? Think again. José Vicente Rangel wants us to believe that Rómulo Betancourt invented the “forced disappearance.” Not to get too...
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