A holiday respite
Barring unforseen circumstances, i.e. The Man dying, we are going to go offline for a few days. We’ll be back toward the end of next week. Happy holidays,...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
Get over it!
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing, woe-is-me, apocalyptic writing about last Sunday’s results. I find this curious since, as Iñaki and others clearly point out, the results were...
Capriles, the Miranda pitbull
My previous post on what Henrique Capriles needs to do in his next Presidential election caused a bit of a misunderstanding. Let me start off by putting some...
Chávez's squalid victory
We all think Hugo Chávez won big in October. Guess what? His victory is pretty small relative to how incumbents usually do in Latin America. Take it away,...
Opportunism, or socialist cronyism?
Bloomberg’s Alex Cuadros has a thoughtful profile of Venezuelan banks. While it lays down the facts without sounding shrill, the facts are alarming enough in themselves. In the...
President Maduro's first political prisoner
Not content with throwing Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni in jail, chavismo now throws her lawyer in jail for “obstruction of justice.” Great PR move, geniuses.
Grow some sack
This article by the inimitable Ibsen Martínez points to a very serious problem any eventual Capriles campaign would face: the restlesness the hardcore opposition feels toward any sort...
My post-mortem
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I insist on seeing the glass 20% full.
Macro trends and micro stories
Today, everyone has a theory about what happened yesterday: people going on vacation, abstention, voters feeling sorry for Chávez, populism. But while there may be some truth in...
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