Chain of Fools
Continuing my quest to use that little corner of the NYTimes website to explain things that are basically inexplicable to a gringo, I take on the cultural juggernaut...
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Venezuela, Warts and All
I have no idea who’s behind it, but I’m developing a serious addiction to País Verruga, a Facebook community that aggregates impossible/ridiculous/outlandish images from the election campaign. Here’s...
Rightsizing the Bolivarian dream
Another fun tidbit from R.G.Aveledo’s N24 interview comes at 9:06 (in the video link), when he’s being asked about a “secret Capriles plan” to phase out the government’s...
The Cochino Frito Offensive
In a long, fascinating interview with Mario Villegas on N24, MUD-chief Ramón Guillermo Aveledo makes a point that should’ve been plain, but hadn’t quite hit me so forcefully...
Converge on THIS, buddy...
Venezuelan polling tends to diverge wildly until the last, say, month-or-so before an election, and then polls seem to converge. (Why this happens remains one of life’s little...
File Under "Signs of the Apocalypse"
What’s scarier? That chavistas think these images are going to make da kidz vote for Chávez, or that they’re right, possibly? And, pardon me while I pick up...
The Venezuela-Guyana Blood Diamond Trail
Girish Gupta’s dissection of the Santa Elena de Uairén-to-Georgetown diamond trafficking route in Time is well worth a read: Underground traffickers agree. “You’d have to be blind to...
Hay Un Camino hacia Grievance Asymmetry
Juan Cristobal and Capablanca are both right, of course. There is no one-to-one correlation from economic conditions to voting patterns – it’d be quite remarkable if there were....
Pick of the Comments
Following on from this morning’s post on the Nonopticon at Tocorón, a couple of Foucault readers note something that was very much on my mind as I wrote...
Dissent of the Day
In comments, Stockerb fulminates, I think it’s a bit of a shame to attack Foucault in this way. It’s very misleading to refer to him as the stereotypical...
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