The country you want
If I had to summarize a campaign motif for a presidential candidate – and you know I’m itching to – I would start with this graph from the...
Get yourself a Gravatar!
Do you want your comments to show up next to a nice little identifying image you’ve picked yourself instead of one of these silly angular things – ?...
Teodoro Floats a Primary Date: October 15, 2011
We should be so lucky. (Guy says a document setting out detailed rules and regulations for a primary are in the process of being drafted, which sounds like...
Tone-deaf chronicles
I hate to continue barking at the shenanigans of the opposition’s old guard, but they make it so difficult! This weekend, we had a double-whammy of bone-headed ideas...
Wonky. Specific. Bread-and-butter Centered. Straightforward.
I think Julio Borges’s attacks on Chávez’s foreign largesse are getting more and more effective: with the $13.5 billion Venezuela sends abroad in various subsidized oil schemes to bolster...
Venezuela's Prison Shame
Since 2000, Venezuela’s prison capacity has grown by 1,200 places, thanks to the expansion of Yare Penitenciary and the construction of a new jail in Coro. In the...
How to Cut the Murder Rate in Half by 2016
If you’re a believer in the Three Bullet-Point Transition (TM), you know that making deep inroads into Venezuela’s outrageously high murder rate is one of the things any...
Can you fall in love with a graph?
Brilliant stuff. Here is the original source. Notice how Venezuela has the largest per capita carbon emissions in South America. Notice, also, that two of the disproportionately high-emissions...
A Spanish-language blog roll call
Over at cronicasdecaracas.net, we’re trying to compile a list of the best Spanish-language opposition-minded Venezuelan blogs. Got any suggestions? Sound off on the comments board.
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