My endorsement (Updated)
I’ve always advocated participation. I thought the 2005 election withdrawal was a mistake. Even yesterday, I tweeted that abstaining would be a mistake. But after hearing Capriles’ message...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
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...
Oh, by the way ...
I know Quico hates it when I post random bullet points of stuff, but there are several things I need to say, and I don’t have time today...
Hugo Chávez, 1954-2013
Dear Melanie, Natalia, and Cecilia, I’m writing this on a sunny, late-autumn morning in Santiago. You are out with your mother doing various things and, as has been...
Hugo Chávez is dead
Hugo Chávez, who transformed Venezuela from a deeply flawed democracy into a nearly flawless autocracy, is dead at 58. My thoughts on the way Fidel Castro shaped his...
Llegó la hora ... de pagarle a los chinos (Updated)
A publisher friend (more on that later) sent me a copy of José Toro Hardy’s Llegó la Hora, and I found a piece of news that I wasn’t aware...
A picture of our failure
I love it: a simple graph that perfectly encapsulates the Venezuelan boom of 2012. It’s all right there. Last year’s growth spurt was the story of an out-of-control government,...
Chevron shake-down? (Updated)
Setty has the details. Maduro’s line seems to be to continue to negotiate with Chevron on parallel tracks – simultaneously denouncing them and beseeching them to put more...
Smudging the line between public and private
Private pictures of Hugo Chávez’s daughters and other assorted members of their inner posse were leaked this week on a Twitter account that was subsequently closed. In them, the girls...
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