Hay Un Camino hacia Grievance Asymmetry
Juan Cristobal and Capablanca are both right, of course. There is no one-to-one correlation from economic conditions to voting patterns – it’d be quite remarkable if there were....
We don't always vote with our pockets
Quico made a point last Friday about how Venezuelans, like other voters, vote with their pockets. In the midst of an oil boom, and with the economy growing...
Pick of the Comments
Following on from this morning’s post on the Nonopticon at Tocorón, a couple of Foucault readers note something that was very much on my mind as I wrote...
¡Así, así, así es que se controla!
The current head of the Venezuelan Parliament’s Comisión de Contraloría (or Government Oversight Committee), Pedro “DirecTV is watching you” Carreño announced that his body had solved 438 of the...
Dissent of the Day
In comments, Stockerb fulminates, I think it’s a bit of a shame to attack Foucault in this way. It’s very misleading to refer to him as the stereotypical...
Were La Planta transfers involved in the Yare riot?
Yesterday, at least 20 people, including one visiting relative, were killed in a grisly fight between rival gangs at Yare Jail, former Zip-code of a comandante presidente who shall...
Foucault in Tocorón
Este artículo se publica en español en Prodavinci. In the wake of news of yet another extraordinarily violent prison riot, we’re reminded once more that Venezuelan prisons are a...
Ad War Update
The latest from the Capriles’ camp uses a first-hand account of how negative the Chavernment’s policy of expropiations has been for the country. This ad from the Chavez’...
The Crashed and the Furious
Gold mines, sneakers, grocery stores and now, PDVSA’s latest non-oil related venture: a brand new race-driving school. Bet you can’t guess who’s involved with it? Yup, Pastor Maldonado,...
5.4...102.19...
When I talk about October’s election, people invariable ask me about “the numbers”. ¿Cómo van los números? That kind of thing. They mean the polls, of course. But...
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