The Oppo Field: Pablo is up, Manuel is out, Leopoldo is on tenterhooks
Now that UNT has just one candidate, the time has come to update our Oppo Field Roundup. At this point, the Top Tier is pretty clear: Top Tier...
The Ruskies better get in line (UPDATED)
So, now that President Chávez has pledged to nationalize the Gold Mining industry, what’s going to happen to Rusoro? You know Rusoro: it’s the politically-connected Russian mining company that had...
Vote for that guy!
Thoughts on Manuel Rosales’ proclamation of Pablo Perez as UNT’s candidate?
Birds of a feather
You know, this whole business with Chávez and Fidel just keeps getting stranger and stranger. At first we thought their relationship was that of mentor and mentee. Horrified...
Worst. Pinchazo. EVER!
VTV’s charming habit of broadcasting evidence to incriminate itself of illegal wiretapping has crossed some kind of chavista loopiness Event Horizon. At this point, the old take on...
Judging-a-book-by-its-cover Chronicles
Just look at the pretty stuff your tax bolivars pay! I mouth off in the Spanish language site…
Where were you seven years ago?
August 15th, 2004. The day of the failed Recall Referendum against Hugo Chavez. For months we planned, we signed, we went to Reparos, we trusted that we had...
Diminishing returns to the casquillo diet
The government’s latest orchestrated outbreak of opposition-baiting tirades is, frankly, tiresome. Time was when the opposition really could be riled, baited, worked up and even split by a savage...
Secrets and Lies
In a way, the most remarkable thing about El Universal’s front page story on the murder rate today isn’t that 8,839 Venezuelans have been murdered so far this...
Dystopia Unarmed
Four days of rioting in seven cities. Hundreds of shops looted. Mass disorder on a scale unseen in 30 years. Five dead. Why? It’s simple. In England, nobody...
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