Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
Yendrick Sánchez likes to crash presidential speeches. Compare the reaction of Nicolás “Ew-get-away-from-me-I-coulda-been-shot-respect-the-President’s-Majesty” Maduro with Henrique Capriles’ reaction when, a few months ago, the same guy crashed his...
A guest submission by Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez, live from the Windy City. Yesterday, at DePaul University in Chicago, the following event was presented by the local Venezuelan consulate: The...
(In Spanish) The video shows a recording of a meeting headed by the Sports Secretary of the Zulia state government. He is saying that people were taken to...
Supreme Tribunal chief Luisa Estella Morales says: “There won’t be a manual recount.” All of the sudden, she starts feeling guilty about people dying on the streets, and...
Leopoldo López says there is a warrant out for their arrest. Spanish daily ABC reports a similar thing. They are being accused of the seven deaths that took...
I couldn’t disagree more with Quico’s basic premise in his lazy cat metaphor. Particularly, I dislike this phrase: “The evidence of fraud, if fraud did happen, is already...
Here’s my take, posted on Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog. An excerpt: The inherent tension in Venezuela’s economic situation is that a government that believes in socialism uses promises...
What was Diosdado Cabello saying with these tweets? Was he interpreting the unease with which the military received these “results”? Was he undermining the weak Maduro? The floor...
As many of you, I watched Nicolás Maduro’s speech last night in awe. Not only was it a rambling, incoherent mess; it also made clear what everyone seems...
Open thread for comments here. We won’t be posting until we’re ready to call the election. I’ll be live on CNN Chile starting at 9 PM Chile time,...
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