"Let me preface this denial by saying something unambiguously false"
So, amid the most recent stream of rumors about Chávez’s health, I was glad to see the government asked some actual medical professionals to give us an official...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Why Chávez Will Win
So, writing in a Bank of America Merrill Lynch newsletter, Francisco Rodríguez is straightforward about it: All opinion surveys show Chávez’s popularity increasing over the past few months....
Aung San Suu López?
More and more, it looks like the government’s gambit in disqualifying-but-not-quite-disqualifying Leopoldo López isn’t going to pan out. As you’ll recall, in a genuinely weird decision the other...
- LL = f ' ( JVR )
In the wake of news about the Supreme Tribunal’s bizarre decision saying Leopoldo López is allowed to run for president, but is not allowed to execute the office...
Kimi Kash
So, this may not be the part of this last week I will remember the most, but it is the one bit of becoming a parent in Québec...
The reason I haven't been posting the last few days...
Expect a series of rambling, half-coherent posts time-stamped 3:58 a.m. or so over the next few weeks.
EFE suckered. Again.
We should be clear: a growing economy and an entirely predictable cancer-sympathy spike have given Chávez’s popularity a real bump in the polls. But Spanish news agency EFE’s decision...
OAP's exercise in legacy sullying comes to an end
So, one down. Oswaldo Álvarez Paz has put an end to his behind-the-ambulance primary run. That’s as good a time as any to update our Oppo Field guide.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime to be labeled an imperialist lackey in 3...2...
UNODC’s first global study on homicide has just been published. Save for gang-ravaged Honduras and El Salvador, nobody comes close to Venezuela. And in South America? Eat our...
Who will be the Steve Jobs of the CCT?
So I had a fun back-and-forth with P. Challenger in comments about what it might take to end Venezuela’s insane – I really don’t think there’s another word...
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