Faces and Voices of an Election
I loved Portuguese photographer Eduardo Leal’s project, “Faces and Voices of an Election”: a strongly visual approximation to the story of Sunday’s vote. I had fun trying to...
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Muse on the Loose, Cont'd.
Over on The Guardian, Rory Carroll is back to his old Caracas stomping grounds with a long piece that’s a strong contender for the title of The One...
¿Con qué se come la paz planetaria?
Over on the International Herald Tribune, I explain how this year the chavistas sound like opositores and the opositores sound like chavistas: Chavismo has completely given up on...
Peaking at the right time
Capriles’s 90 minute interview on the crucial, mass-market Venevision network tonight showed a candidate who’s grown fully into his role just at the right time. Relaxed, confident, direct and...
There's a Mercal for Dollars and it's called Cadivi
This little video is just too cool: the center-left data nerd’s case against the undercover backwards wealth redistribution of the Chávez era. Listen, I don’t actually think this...
Waste born of corruption, amplified by mismanagement and entrenched by lack of accountability and ideological rigidity.
Over on FP.com, pivoting off of that Reuters’ report on Fonden, I try to explain the way your morning paper will lie to you about Venezuela this week....
It'll never happen again, baby, I promise
This is simply upsetting. Speaking to supporters in Cabimas, Chávez literally promises to “be more efficient, a better companion, a better person,” adding “I won’t fail you.” That...
Signs of the Times
As Capriles closes his Caracas campaign with one big rally, you can’t help yourself from reading the tea-leaves in stories like this: 29 de septiembre de 2012.- Un...
"Best Voting System in the World" Chronicles
And now, this week in crazy: Luis Piedra, director de la Oficina de Planificación y Organismos Subalternos del CNE, anunció que el partido político Unidad Democrática decidió apoyar...
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