Chavismo is coming for grandma
… and I mean that literally. According to La Verdad, a Maracaibo newspaper, José Álvarez, a rural Táchira native, tortured and killed his 80-year old mother because “god”...
Life
Villegas drops the communicational ball
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas took his anger to the twittersphere yesterday to denounce an “unscrupulous” alleged fake photo of Rosinés, the comandante presidente’s youngest daughter, with rapper Nicki...
The educational policy deficit
As the Hugo Chávez era comes to a close in Venezuela, it is time to begin taking stock of his legacy. One of the oft-repeated lines is that...
Chávez and the Saudis
One of the least explored aspects of Hugo Chávez’s foreign policy has been his relationship with Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have long been advocates of moderation within OPEC,...
The gang's all here!
It has been a crowded weekend in Havana so far. First, two Latin American presidents tried unsuccessfully to visit the comandante presidente: Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and...
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...
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?...
Annals of communicational sausage-making
If you’re interested in how the Revolution is Broadcast, this leaked letter from Information Minister Ernesto Villegas to Hugo Chávez is pretty interesting. The letter provides a detailed...
Marco Aurélio García vs. Ernesto Villegas
One of Brazilian President Dilma Roussef’s top foreign policy advisors, Marco Aurélio García, has gone on the record saying nothing will happen on January 10th, since the government can just...
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...
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