The real star
As I watch this video that summarizes the unadulterated emotion of the Capriles campaign, I keep thinking it has only one real star: the hat. When Tibisay Lucena...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
As goes Valera, so goes the country
Henrique Capriles is holding a massive rally in the small city of Valera, a place I’m sure many caraqueños have driven past a number of times but never...
Gabriela Montero, a brave artist
Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero is a spell-binding Venezuelan pianist. In a wonderful post over at HuffPo, she paints the Venezuelan reality in bold colors and doesn’t hold back...
Muse on the loose
One way this presidential campaign has already paid off is in the trove of great writing that it’s been inspiring. First, this magnum opus by Boris Muñoz, first...
Closing arguments
The Governor makes his case in this, one of the final videos of the campaign. I asked a friend close to the Comando Venezuela why Capriles didn’t emphasize...
The underdog
It really is David vs. Goliath. I set the stage over at the FP blog.
Varianzas - they're tied
Well-regarded pollster Varianzas says: Chávez 49.7%, Capriles 47.4%. The number of people that say the economic sitation in the country is “bad” goes up from 43.4% to 47.2%....
Datanálisis throws in the towel (UPDATED)
Reputable Venezuelan pollster Datanálisis has just leaked its final poll before the election. The results are jaw-dropping, but for the wrong reasons. Their poll, leaked to Bloomberg’s Charlie...
Marquina doubles down
Both Quico and I are a bit busy today. Still, I wanted to highlight this interview with Dr. Jose Rafael Marquina by Spanish newspaper ABC. Marquina has become...
Laureano nails it
Laureano Márquez has a wonderful piece today, where he weighs in on the milieu of the times. So if you’re the sort of person who thinks milieu counts...
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