It's Raining Victims
Eleven years into his Presidency, it’s an established fact that Hugo Chávez handles our country’s finances like his own personal pulpería. In spite of this, it never ceases...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
The Meaning of the Mine
Transfixed as we all were by the picture-perfect rescue of the 33 Chilean miners, something Michael Moore said last night on the otherwise ludicrous Larry King show stuck...
When Every Election Takes You Closer To Dictatorship...
My latest piece for the What’s Next Venezuela? Blog comments on this deep anomaly. Chavismo understands that, to be viable, it needs both to hold periodic elections and...
Mario Vargas Llosa (Updated)
I don’t normally care much who gets the Nobel Prize. Normally, that is, until one of my favorite writers and political thinkers wins it. Hearing of Mario Vargas...
No Issue Left Unwedged
It had to come to this. El Universal is reporting on the current Criminal Code project. The lame-duck chavista National Assembly has apparently decided to de-criminalize abortion in...
Falcón Expands the MUD Big Tent
Lara Governor Henry Falcón, aka “the most interesting politician in Venezuela today“, has just reached out to the opposition big time. At issue: the 2012 elections. Not the...
Leopoldo López has game
Drinking my morning coffee while scanning the web, I came upon this op-ed piece Leopoldo López wrote for The Huffington Post. I was mightily impressed. The content of...
PSUV's Publicly Funded Campaign
Yesterday, Congressman-elect and Primero Justicia President Julio Borges made a rather startling announcement. In a morning TV show, Borges a) said that he would not be a candidate for...
The three-legged stool
Juan Cristóbal says: Lately, this story about the 1988 Referendum that ended the Pinochet dictatorship keeps coming to mind. (Translated from Spanish Wikipedia): “At 12:18 AM on October...
Mental health break for the weekend
Juan Cristóbal says: – It’s easy to forget, but before we were oligarchs, squalid ones and betrayers of the homeland, we were simply – his invisible friends. I...
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