Life imitates satire
Two weeks ago, when I wrote this silly little satirical piece on what would happen if chavismo decided to just pretend that Chávez was ok to govern indefinitely,...
VP Maduro: No inauguration on January 10th (Updated)
Minutes ago, the President of the National Assembly Diosdado Cabello just read a letter from Vice-President Nicolas Maduro, in which he indicates that President Hugo Chavez won’t attend...
Capriles to foreign governments: Don't cross this line
In a forceful performance today, Henrique Capriles outlined the opposition’s stance re. January 10th. With Lara Governor Henri Falcón by his side (Hint: these two are a team)...
Marco Aurélio García vs. Ernesto Villegas
One of Brazilian President Dilma Roussef’s top foreign policy advisors, Marco Aurélio García, has gone on the record saying nothing will happen on January 10th, since the government can just...
Patently Obvious Chronicles
The trouble with the past is that it already happened. Take, for instance, this decision by the rojo, rojito Supreme Tribunal of Justice, dated May 26th, 2009 which touched...
Formalities in formaldehyde
One of the more salient points of these surreal times we are living through is that a Revolution spawned out of a formal oath in front of a...
Pepe ex machina?
Now this is interesting, Uruguayan president José Mujica will travel to Caracas on Wednesday, Montevideo daily El País has confirmed… The Uruguayan Senate plans to meet tomorrow Tuesday...
The Living Constitution
As a lector avispao put it to me, the problem with my critique of the Maduro Doctrine is that I’m looking for the constitutional law in the wrong...
Reflections on The Maduro Doctrine
Este post aparece en español en ProDaVinci. Kudos to vice-president Nicolás Maduro for his epoch-making contribution to Bolivarian Constitutional Doctrine in remarks on the Constitution’s Article 231 – you know,...
Pretty please, could our next radical left wing president be a little bit more like Pepe Mujica?
If Simón Romero’s profile doesn’t make you smile, you have no heart. Polls show that his approval ratings have been declining, but “I don’t give a damn,” insisted...
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