A comprehensive theory of ChávezTime
Quico says: Chavismo, as the saying goes, is “more-of-the-same, only worse”. It’s one my favorite tropes on the Chávez era. What I like best about that reduction is...
Chavez as Annie Wilkes
Juan Cristobal says: – First came Columbus. Now … Gallegos! El Universal is reporting that the bust of Rómulo Gallegos, first Venezuelan in the modern era to be...
Our Constitution up in flames
Juan Cristobal says: Freedom of expression. The right to elect officials. The right to a fair trial. Freedom of religion. Those all sound swell, don’t they? They are...
April 12th: Putting it all together
Quico says: Click here for the Second Part of my interview with Brian Nelson, author of The Silence and The Scorpion: The Coup Against Chávez and the Making...
April 11th: Putting it all together
Listen to my interview with Brian Nelson, author of The Silence and The Scorpion, here.Quico says: Seven years on, the events of April 11, 2002, haunt Venezuela as...
Petro-dictatorship chronicles
Juan Cristobal says: – The autocratic ruler of a petro-state has just been re-elected President for an unprecedented third term after Parliament removed term limits from the Constitution....
Chavez makes a power grab
Juan Cristobal says: – That headline is ridiculous, isn’t it? Chavez is perhaps the most powerful man in the history of our nation, more powerful than Simon Bolivar...
kombat karive
Juan Cristobal says: – The BBC has a video on indigenous Venezuelan martial arts. They don’t mention the government, but surely this is something they have their hand...
The "dictatorship" canard
Quico says: I’m always amazed by the kinds of debates that ensue when somebody in the anti-Chavez camp strays from oppo groupthink and declares something that, in the...
A step towards dictatorship
Quico says: If you read this blog regularly, you know how the loose use of terms like “totalitarian”, “dictator”, “fascist”, etc. drives me up a wall. After 10...
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