Ad War Update: The Last Chapter
Ninety six days after it launched, the official campaign is now over. Last night, the candidates made their final pitches to voters on the streets and on TV....
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Lloviendo Sobre Mojado Chronicles
I had great fun writing my election Set-Up piece for The New Republic. It’s tough writing so many of these without overlap, though. To keep it fresh, this...
Ad War Update: The Final Stretch
We’re now in the last days of the presidential campaign and both campaigns keep releasing ads to persuade voters. First, the latest from the Capriles’ camp: This one...
"Sensation of insecurity" Chronicles, cont'd.
Ramon Maldonado, third in the hierarchy of the Venezuelan Criminal Police (CICPC) and former head of its Anzoátegui delegation was the latest victim of crime in Caracas this...
The Chinese are also boliburgueses
A couple of articles to make your head spin. Charlie Devereux has a terrific piece for Bloomberg on China’s influence on Venezuela. Charlie, perhaps motivated by our little...
Annals of chavista headline writing
Yesterday, two opposition activists were shot dead during a rally for Henrique Capriles in Chávez’s home state of Barinas. (Another died later) How did the international media reflect this...
Suddenly, it's Chávez playing into our narrative
Capriles has spent the last few months working to portray Chávez as out-of-touch with “the concerns of people like you”: a guy who let power get to his...
The real star
As I watch this video that summarizes the unadulterated emotion of the Capriles campaign, I keep thinking it has only one real star: the hat. When Tibisay Lucena...
Gabriela Montero, a brave artist
Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero is a spell-binding Venezuelan pianist. In a wonderful post over at HuffPo, she paints the Venezuelan reality in bold colors and doesn’t hold back...
Watch that inevitability narrative shift...
Finally somebody gets it. It’s not “Chávez is comfortably ahead in the polls.” It’s “while Chávez has a big lead according to plainly biased pro-government pollsters, serious independent...
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