The Economist suggests it's "untreatable"
Don’t miss two strong pieces from The Economist print edition on Venezuela. One is in the op-ed Leaders section, and focuses on Chávez’s efforts to hide the extent...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
Off the beaten path
Just a quick post on two interesting things I read today, from a couple of blogs that deserve more traffic. First off, Off the Wire has an excellent...
Hitchens on Hugo
Christopher Hitchens is dead. Love him or hate him, man, did he have a way with words. His excoriation of Hugo Chávez is something to remember, well worth...
PISA-tarios
In case you did not know, the government of Miranda recently applied the PISA educational quality test to students in its schools. Longtime reader and commenter Kepler has...
Wiki-MUD
A few days ago, I received the first draft of the MUD’s platform. It is an all-encompassing 163-page document, filled with the opposition’s promises, hopes and wishes for...
The titanic struggle ahead
Today, Hugo Chávez launched a new social program: Misión Venezuela en Amor Mayor. Don’t ask me to translate that. The point? Making sure all senior citizens in Venezuela...
Did Luisa Estella really say it's OK to invade? (Updated: Probably, but doubts remain)
The media in Venezuela are abuzz with the latest sentence from the Supreme Tribunal. In it, the Court says that Article 471 of Venezuela’s Penal Code, which supposedly...
The state of play, video version
Trying to catch up with the state of the campaign videos. First off, this excellent biographical spot from the Pablo Pérez campaign. Next, a simple ad from Leopoldo...
Quo IVADis?
The most suspicious thing about the supposed IVAD poll showing Hugo Chávez beating all opponents by 20+ points, and enjoying popularity ratings in the (stratospheric) seventies? The only...
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