The red rooster makes a stand
Looking at the results of chavismo’s primary for the 16-D regional elections, one thing stands out: all the names selected for the governors’ races are from Chávez’s own PSUV...
Opposition posterior conveyance, in graphical form
Our serial purveyors of Venezuelan election maps have updated their parish-by-parish interface to create a nice graphical representation of how exactly our asses got handed to us on October...
How the Oppo Machines Fared
Longtime friend of the blog Omar Zambrano contributes this fun little ditty to the dismal art of 7-O-ology… It’s a cold, hard fact: electorally speaking, Chavez whipped our...
The half-baked ministry of oversight
During his last public interview of the campaign, the comandante presidente hinted at the idea of creating a new Ministry dedicated to somehow controlling the Chavernment, as he...
Why Izarra got sacked
With this tweet, Andrés Izarra confirmed the end of his tenure as Comunications and Information Minister (MinCI), a short time after the comandante presidente made the change public...
Bolivarian Awards 2012: The big winners
Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez joins us for a guest post today. Take it away, Daniel … “A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not...
Paquetazo en Gotas
And so it begins. The Chávez government started to cut back on unsustainable social spending in the construction sector not years after the election, or months, or weeks even,...
El honor no se divisa
On one of my recent trips to Caracas, my bags took about two hours to get from the plane to the baggage belt. I asked the folks from...
Other voices
After getting our asses handed to us by the Venezuelan people, where does the opposition go from here? The answer, of course, depends on what you think “here”...
Chavismo's one-man primary is over
One election is over but another one is around the corner: on December 16th, voters will vote for all State Governors and Legislative Councils. The MUD chose all...
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