Necrophilia is in the Eye of the Beholder
As I type this words – 9:36 p.m. Caracas Time – the assembled leadership of a political movement that spent the last 21 months accusing anyone who asked...
ABC: the coffin on parade was empty
Spanish newspaper ABC has been relentless in its reporting on Hugo Chávez’s health. Now, on the heels of Chávez’s funeral, journalist Emili Blasco launches an explosive allegation: the...
Spot the Revolution
A neat Bloomberg chart puts things in context. (Numbers are averages for each president’s entire term in office.) And note, here the yardstick is the crappy second half...
The Omnishambles Begins (Updated)
And now, the Wall Street Journal hits us with this gem: Some experts said the Venezuelans may have a difficult time preserving Mr. Chavez’s body unless the right...
What you won't see on today's Funeral Cadena Broadcast
These photos I took are for all the doubters. These are the immediate surroundings of la Academia Militar, where, in two hours, a solemn State funeral with foreign...
A rare moment of admission
It’s been easy to forget these last few days that all the “normal” problems of the country are still there just the same. Last week, for instance, Interior...
beyondbricolage
The FT’s beyondbrics blog asked me for a little guest post on why the Opposition found it so hard to resist Chávez’s authoritarian project. I don’t care much...
#EpicFail in Los Próceres
I just came back from la Academia Militar, after 8 hours of lines and shoving and a metallic sun and a magenta sunburn. I did not get to...
Annals of socialist cell-phone making
Remember the vergatario cell phone? The model is still being produced (and upgraded) by Vtelca, a state-owned company created in association with the Chinese electronics maker ZTE. But...
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