They're not weird, we're weird
Mulling yesterday’s dreamlike i-non-guration and meditating over how far gone the republic now seems, one thought keeps haunting me: it’s not their values that are weird, it’s our...
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Dream Thread
So as we process the bizarre, dream-like inaugural-in-absentia on display in Caracas today, it made me wonder: have you ever had an actual dream with Chávez in it?...
Surely Bertolt Brecht could not have done better...
A few years ago, Teodoro Petkoff made audiences guffaw with his bon mot about how, more and more, the Chávez government treats the Constitution as though it were...
Young and Defenseless
by Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez “As Constituições são como as mulheres, elas são mais férteis, enquanto elas são mais violadas.” Getulio Vargas, Brazilian Dictator. First things first: that the government...
Taking Stock
To get a sense of just how needless the constitutional crisis developing in Venezuela really is, let’s just step back from the play-by-play and take stock of where...
Life imitates satire
Two weeks ago, when I wrote this silly little satirical piece on what would happen if chavismo decided to just pretend that Chávez was ok to govern indefinitely,...
Patently Obvious Chronicles
The trouble with the past is that it already happened. Take, for instance, this decision by the rojo, rojito Supreme Tribunal of Justice, dated May 26th, 2009 which touched...
Pepe ex machina?
Now this is interesting, Uruguayan president José Mujica will travel to Caracas on Wednesday, Montevideo daily El País has confirmed… The Uruguayan Senate plans to meet tomorrow Tuesday...
The Living Constitution
As a lector avispao put it to me, the problem with my critique of the Maduro Doctrine is that I’m looking for the constitutional law in the wrong...
Reflections on The Maduro Doctrine
Este post aparece en español en ProDaVinci. Kudos to vice-president Nicolás Maduro for his epoch-making contribution to Bolivarian Constitutional Doctrine in remarks on the Constitution’s Article 231 – you know,...
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