Winning, yet losing
I’m not feeling too optimistic about the whole Leopoldo López saga. Last week, the Interamerican Court for Human Rights decided that López had been unfairly barred from running...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
Machado stirs up the right-winger in me
Maria Corina Machado gave a really good speech yesterday on the issue of crime. I mouth off in the Spanish site.
Your move, Luisa Estella
The Interamerican Court on Human Rights has just announced that Leopoldo López should be allowed to run for President. Supposedly, these rulings are binding in Venezuela. No idea...
主權? Try 賣淫
From an AVN story about a meeting Hugo Chávez held yesterday with the Chinese: “Chávez … explained that Chinese banks give out loans to Venezuela and, in exchange,...
October surprise
Venezuela’s electoral council has announced that next year’s Presidential elections have been moved up about two months. Instead of the traditional December date, the elections next year will...
Strong rumblings from the rumor mill
Sorry for not posting for a while, but I’ve been pretty overwhelmed with life stuff. I guess we can start a thread discussing the latest from the rumor...
Eva Golinger makin' things up = dog bites man
There are two topics I normally steer away from: Wikileaks, and Eva Golinger. The former, because it is essentially a boatload of gossip, and people fascinated by it...
Plastics
One of Venezuela’s many under-reported stories is the series of troubles in state-owned petrochemical giant PEQUIVEN. A loyal reader has been writing me for months, talking about the...
Does up mean down in legalese?
Once in a while, in the privacy of my own home, when no one is looking … I enjoy taking a peek at codes and statutes. I did...
Somebody's watching ... and recording
My new favorite blog is Monitoreo Ciudadano. The decent folks there are putting up a nice little stock of videos, documenting the use of government media – from...
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