The Animalfarmification of Our Politics
Univisión’s Manuel Rueda is on the case, Imagine the following script: A wildly popular leader of a tropical country wins an election and then heads to a foreign...
Are blackouts coming to Caracas?
For years, the Venezuelan capital was kept at bay of electrical blackouts by orders of the comandante presidente himself. In recent months, failures in the service have increased...
Villegas drops the communicational ball
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas took his anger to the twittersphere yesterday to denounce an “unscrupulous” alleged fake photo of Rosinés, the comandante presidente’s youngest daughter, with rapper Nicki...
The educational policy deficit
As the Hugo Chávez era comes to a close in Venezuela, it is time to begin taking stock of his legacy. One of the oft-repeated lines is that...
Chávez and the Saudis
One of the least explored aspects of Hugo Chávez’s foreign policy has been his relationship with Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have long been advocates of moderation within OPEC,...
The gang's all here!
It has been a crowded weekend in Havana so far. First, two Latin American presidents tried unsuccessfully to visit the comandante presidente: Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and...
They're not weird, we're weird
Mulling yesterday’s dreamlike i-non-guration and meditating over how far gone the republic now seems, one thought keeps haunting me: it’s not their values that are weird, it’s our...
The day after
January 10th has passed. Chávez did not show up for his swearing in, but his “people” took the oath in his place, because the people are Chávez, and...
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