Overcoming Incongruence
For much of the last eleven years, one of the hardest-to-miss themes in the Chávez era has been the incongruence between the residual bits of liberal democracy in...
Castrating the body politic
Think they could never censor the Internet? Think again. Think they won’t take away all the powers of the legislature if they happen to lose next September? Think...
Mordazas24
It’s been barely two days since Chávez’s launched on that rant about "regulating" internet forums the same way he "regulates" dissident radio stations and TV channels (i.e., with...
"Un proceso que va bien"
Teodoro Petkoff’s editorial today is, as usual, worth a read. In it, he takes stock of the opposition’s method for deciding unity candidacies. He finds a lot to...
Reassurance-Onslaught Cycle on Fast Forward
Is it just me, or is the chavista reassurance-to-onslaught-on-civil-liberties cycle getting quicker? Barely 48 hours had passed after Franco Silva, who heads the Nationalized telecom giant, CANTV, had...
Lede Burial 101: NYT fumbles the Cubillas Fontán-INTI Link
I’m really glad the New York Times is devoting some real resources to this ETA-Venezuela story: chavismo’s willingness to entwine itself with every weirdo fringe group out there, no matter how...
Stand Corrected
Correction: El Nacional sneakily got ahead of me by running a correction for the article I accused them of not correcting, mooting pretty much this whole post. The...
Outbreak of Sanity at Military Intelligence
Bogota’s El Tiempo has obtained a leaked copy of the Venezuelan Military Intelligence Directorate (DIM)’s strategy vis-à-vis Colombia’s presidential election. The thing is…remarkably sane. Featuring the kind of cool-headed...
Por eso es que estamos como estamos, part 72,000,000
According to El Nacional, over the last 11 years, prices have gone up 733%, while remunerations have risen just 571%. Ergo, since 733-571 is 162…purchasing power has fallen...
De repente se nos olvidó...
It’s now been a month and a bit since the first and – AFAIK – the last broadcast of "Suddenly…Chávez", the "new" Chávez radio show launched with such fanfare...
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