Where the streets are paved red
Last year, Caracas was the most dangerous capital city in the world. It was also the fourth most dangerous city in the world. This according to Mexican NGO...
Red with envy
Hugo Chávez likes to boast that he is some sort of innovator when it comes to social policies and that the opposition has no answers. Never mind that...
The reason Ibsen is IBSEN
Ibsen Martínez is one of Venezuela’s few towering opinion makers, probably the only one that gets around on a first-name basis, like Madonna, Fidel, or Obama. His obituary of...
Classist Bile Alert
Vladimir Villegas isn’t pro-Fernando Soto Rojas…but he’s definitely anti-anti-Soto Rojas. It makes for an interesting read.
New Horizons in Revolutionary Dissent Management
That “great European leader” whose oil ended up lost in Lake Charles somehow has thought up a new technique for managing dissent at home: taking away his opponents’...
These days, he's only a problem for us
How times change. As the diplomat Chávez once championed to lead the OAS openly calls for a formal debate on his increasing authoritarianism and says the Enabling Law violates...
Leadership on the Gas Subsidy
Here’s a fun question to ponder: how much do Gasoline Subsidies really cost Venezuela? Everybody knows the answer, right? With gas fetching just a few US cents a gallon,...
The end of an error
Today, Venezuela’s opposition returned to the National Assembly they boycotted five years ago. They come armed with a sizable minority that, if this were a government that followed...
Resorteme Bait
One point that really can’t be made often enough is that the 1999 Constitution doesn’t magically lose its validity somehow just because nobody pays any attention to it....
Must be the U.S. constitution he's reading...
In a rare bit of (seemingly) good news for the opposition, President Chávez has decided to veto the Universities Law that the 95% chavista outgoing National Assembly just...
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