Not the brightest bulb
Electricity Minister Jesse Chacón said today that the government would raise electricity rates so that people who use too much electricity begin to pay more. This is a terrible...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
Just a chat between a leader and his fellow citizens
After a month of pot-banging and PR snafus, Nicolás Maduro is not taking any more chances. So when he decided to meet with community leaders from Baruta and...
The mustache chronicles
A guest post from Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez: Nicolás Maduro is many things to many people: a tyrant, a hero, a president, a fake president, an awkward public speaker, and...
Overheard at a Tool convention
It must be nice to work for Centro Internacional Miranda: get a hefty salary, spout off a bunch of clichés, and be bathed in the veneer of official...
The flip side of Quico's post
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I lay out the reasons why Capriles has a case. My main point: One has to wonder: How could chavistas get away...
Public blackmail as State policy
The President of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, is a man who doesn’t beat around the bush. Case in point: his recent announcement that opposition legislators who refuse...
Once bitten, twice shy
Maduro wants dialogue. He wants to sit down and have a chat with the murderous, fascist, imperialist, anti-homeland, drug-snorting, baby-eating, racist, mysoginist haters of the poor he calls...
2013 "results" by parish
Long time CC reader and contributor Dorothy has a really cool map … for those of us into this sort of thing. Enjoy.
It's war
When the opposition first claimed fraud, back in the Recall Referendum of 2004, it had very little to go on. Quickly, we were split into two camps: those...
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