File this under dog bites man
Hugo Chávez took a surprisingly moderate tone in Saturday’s State of the Union address. He even went out of his way to shake the hand of opposition deputies. Some...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
Extraditing his own (Updated)
So today the government is gloating because they captured the mistress of one of the head honchos of the notorious Los Zetas drug cartel. Her lover, a Colombian...
Throwing his people under the bus
This morning, dozens of families who lost their homes last December took to the streets to protest. According to press reports, the group was complaining they have been...
Where the streets are paved red
Last year, Caracas was the most dangerous capital city in the world. It was also the fourth most dangerous city in the world. This according to Mexican NGO...
Red with envy
Hugo Chávez likes to boast that he is some sort of innovator when it comes to social policies and that the opposition has no answers. Never mind that...
The reason Ibsen is IBSEN
Ibsen Martínez is one of Venezuela’s few towering opinion makers, probably the only one that gets around on a first-name basis, like Madonna, Fidel, or Obama. His obituary of...
The end of an error
Today, Venezuela’s opposition returned to the National Assembly they boycotted five years ago. They come armed with a sizable minority that, if this were a government that followed...
Lukashenko: your oil is in Lake Charles
A little nugget in my Inbox courtesy of a reader. You know how Hugo Chávez is always boasting that he wants to ship oil to other countries, how he...
Happy new taxes, human beings!
Two days before the New Year, Hugo Chávez’s economic svengali let everyone know they will be significantly poorer in 2011. Starting January 1st – yes, you have two days...
The Miami pallbearer
There he is in Miami, sitting in the front row at Carlos Andrés Pérez’s controversial funeral, photos courtesy of Noticias 24. And there he is, standing guard by the former...
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