The best bit from the Mario Tape
It’s hard to pick just one, there’s so much crazy stuff in there. I’m tempted to go with “the opposition had a plan to commit election fraud on...
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Remember SICAD? Remember THIS guy?
You don’t? Don’t feel bad: nobody does. After a single dollar auction back on March 24th, the new parallel-to-CADIVI system for distributing dollars whimpered off into the oblivion...
Six years on, they still don't get it.
I first ran the post below all the way back in 2007. It’s both shocking and totally unsurprising that six years on, they still don’t get it. Six...
Exactly how violated is the 1999 constitution?
The thoroughgoing collapse of law-based government in Venezuela has been a constant theme in this blog since 2002. But this week, in a time-wasting exercise of epic proportions,...
And then chavismo collapsed into a scary collective insanity
Man, they don’t make ’em like Alma Guillermoprieto anymore… While his political base crumbles, Maduro inaugurates theaters, attends circus performances, wears olive-green military-style shirts with ever-broader epaulets even...
Annals of Anti-Imperialism
Tal día como hoy, 46 years ago, Venezuelan territory was actually physically invaded by a foreign power for the first time since independence in the last 100 years. Prohibido...
Frogs Inside the Globovisión Pot Agree: "The water's only the teensiest bit warm here, come swim!"
Following the sale of Globovision, the last remaining critical TV broadcaster in Venezuela, to (reputedly) regime-connected investors, there was widespread fear in the opposition that a new and...
Faced with old-style dictatorship, your only real choice is old-style resistance
What we need now from Capriles is coherence between discourse and action. Because, at the moment, he’s caught in the same incoherent stance Miguel Henrique Otero’s sophomoric Comando...
Dragged Kicking-and-Screaming Into Clandestinity
The events in the Assembly today were deeply shocking. With dissident congresspeople now not merely barred from speaking, not merely deprived of their salaries but repeatedly physically assaulted, ...
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