A candidate in search of a tone
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I ponder the unsettled tone of the Capriles campaign. One day he is an attack dog, the next day he is a...
The electrical war
In a campaign rally in Cojedes today, Acting-(Like-a)-President Nicolás Maduro announced the creation of a brand new mission for the electricity sector, focus to fight what he calls an...
Don't know who Juan S. Montes is? Maybe you should...
The senior PDVSA manager (a.k.a. “Black”) is fingered for pocketing some US$35.7 million in bribes from Francisco Illarramendi to make his PDVSA Ponzi Scheme possible. Much more detail...
The red canonization continues
The Maternity & Children’s Hospital in the Western Caracas neighborhood of El Valle (seen in the picture left) is set to finally be opened to the public after...
We're all for universal equilibrium, as long as somebody else pays
The U.N. General Assembly just passed a landmark global treaty on arms sales. First reports indicated that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela abstained, which was perhaps not surprising...
Roy Chaderton joins the looney bin
In the last couple of weeks, it has become increasingly clear that the Maduro campaign has bought a one-way ticket on the Mental Express. In spite of this,...
Ad War Update: pre-campaña ends, official campaign begins
With the official campaign now upon us, what’s left of the pre-campaña is online: The Maduro campaign is going big on the figure of the comandante supremo. Here,...
El Chigüire Gives Up
This feels historic, somehow. Venezuela’s premier source of satire bows to the evident: you just can’t parody a movement this good at parodying itself.
How can people this inept win? By militarizing the mobilization effort, that's how!
For those of you keeping score at home, this is what Campaign 2013 is about according to Planet Maduro: The hateful opposition deserves our vengeance, love is the...
Sponsored hip-hop
You’ve probably never heard of Rebel Diaz, a hip-hop group from NYC’s South Bronx, whose music is top-heavy with ñángara politics. Days ago, they released a new tribute...
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