Weisbrot in his Labyrinth
At times, you almost feel bad for Mark Weisbrot, the dean of the dwindling corps of quasi-respectable Chávez apologists in D.C. A few years ago, back when it...
"The Constitution reads more and more like subversive pamphlet..."
The phrase is Teodoro Petkoff’s. When he penned it, a few years, he was reaching for humor through hyperbole, but as time passes, his words have come to...
Thoughtcrime
One time Zulia State governor and center-right candidate for the presidency Oswaldo Álvarez Paz will be spending his first night behind bars tonight for what can only be described as...
File under "sign of the apocalypse #21,382,864"
Why do I have this image in my head of Chávez playing a fiddle somewhere?
The Chavington Post
Dear lord almight. Painter, tank commander, baseball player, military ethicist, variety show host, coup plotter, poet and now…blogger! It had to come to this. It was just bound to. Welcome,...
One Political Prisoner's Ordeal
What the government is doing to Judge María Lourdes Afiuni staggers the mind. No other single story captures Venezuela’s slide to dictatorship quite like her’s. Jailed summarily simply for...
Venezuela: Dictatorial PowerSlide in Progress
Tomorrow, March 18th, I’ll be participating in the BBC’s SuperPower Nation conference, live online, all day long. It’ll be really cool: there will be bloggers from all over the world...
Spain has "full confidence" that Venezuela will collaborate in the fight against the terrorists on its payroll
Just a couple of days after Spanish newspaper ABC noted that a second high profile ETA sympathizer, José Antonio Egido Sigüenza, is also on the Venezuelan government’s payroll,...
It's all your fault
This last weekend was the bloodiest of the year in Caracas’ undeclared civil war: 67 people were murdered between Friday and Sunday. The AFP account – which, by...
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