Believe
As this electrifying Presidential campaign season comes to a close, this will be the last post in favor of Henrique Capriles, per the CNE’s rules. I leave you...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
Safety in numbers
My latest piece over at Americas Quarterly. I’m actually … kind of pleased with how it came out.
Cancer as a weapon
Boris Muñoz wrote what I consider the best piece of this election campaign. But … he is also writing in English, over at Newsweek. It figures. His story...
The healthiest breakup in the world
This second clip from Capriles’ appearance yesterday with Luis Chataing impressed me even more than the previous one. Here, he talks about being grounded, about his grandmother, about...
Keeping it simple
I woke up to read my friend Setty’s account of his few hours in Caracas. So far, he senses a lot of enthusiasm for Chávez on the street,...
The lines have crossed
But it’s not me saying it … it’s Iñaki, over at YVPolis.
Psych-ops
In an interesting press conference today, Henrique Capriles said, among other things, that he has already selected a Minister of Defense, but he won’t say his name because...
The Chinese are also boliburgueses
A couple of articles to make your head spin. Charlie Devereux has a terrific piece for Bloomberg on China’s influence on Venezuela. Charlie, perhaps motivated by our little...
La memoria es frágil, infiel y tendenciosa
The above video is of Manuel Rosales’ closing march in Caracas, in 2006. It was a memorable, heavily-attended apotheosis of people. A few days later, Rosales lost the...
Annals of chavista headline writing
Yesterday, two opposition activists were shot dead during a rally for Henrique Capriles in Chávez’s home state of Barinas. (Another died later) How did the international media reflect this...
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