Miranda will have two governors
Remember the parallel governorships scheme, set up by the central government in Lara, Zulia and Caracas to re-route financial transfers to the regions through Chavista hands, bypassing elected...
The Genius of Devaluation
So did you see all the insanity in Cyprus over the last few days? Man! For reasons too complicated to go into here – but which will surely...
Joaquín Crespo is missing
The family mausoleum of 19th century General and President Joaquín Crespo (1841-1898), located in Caracas’s main public cemetery (Cementerio General del Sur) has been found empty. The remains...
Face-off: what a novel concept!
I’m officially petitioning for a moratorium on every sort of “we’re so screwed because it’s an uneven playing field” speak. All this fatalistic chatter is old and tired,...
Our sources shall remain anonymous
After last week’s explosive leak of Maduro’s secret strategy memo, we now come across another scandalous bit of inside information from the Comando Hugo Chávez camp: the campaign...
Herd mentality
“I’m telling you man, we Venezuelans are the best managers in the world.” My buddy Diógenes is sitting across a miniature sized table from me. We are sipping...
David Frum thinks our book is essential, so go buy it!
An exceedingly generous review of our book, by The Daily Beast’s David Frum. The money quote: If [the authors’] telling is correct, whatever else Chavismo is, it’s not sustainable...
My response to Eva Golinger
No, Chávez didn’t make dreams come true for the poor. He didn’t improve their lives. Instead, he gave them money, and made them miserable on the side. My...
From "Cult of Personality" to straight-up Cult
Chávez biographer Alberto Barrera Tyszka really nails the strangeness of our current predicament in this OpEd in El Nacional today. The takeaway? We’re no longer really “the opposition”; at...
Orwellianismo Endógeno
Yesterday afternoon was spent watching the procession to take Chávez’s mortal remains to what’s now known as the Cuartel de la Montaña on State TV. The experience left me...
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