An event 28 years in the making
It’s hard to overstate the significance of tomorrow’s planned televised debate between the opposition’s five candidates for President. Venezuela has no tradition of political debates. In fact, the...
Life
Latitude
As Juan hinted, I’m finding this whole newborn thing quite a bit more time consuming than I’d expected. (How does he manage with three!??) Still and all, I...
Please stand by
I’m here. Quico is here. We’ll see you Monday!
Libya today, China tomorrow?
El Mundo Economía y Negocios has a nice catch regarding Venezuela’s billion-dollar joint development fund with Libya. Signed just a year ago, partially ratified by the A.N. and...
What, another one!???
Jesus, another fake pollster?! En serio!? This one has such a generic name – International Consulting Services (!) – that a Google search just throws back all manner...
Gaddafi passed on Turiamo
There are conflicting news reports about the fate of Muammar Gaddafi. Some say he has been injured and captured. Others say he has died. Regardless, he’s toast. [Update:...
Recipe for polarization
1. Make otherwise sensible people talk about the death of Chávez. 2. Use the courts to pick on the opposition’s leaders and slowly take away their rights. 3....
The reason I haven't been posting the last few days...
Expect a series of rambling, half-coherent posts time-stamped 3:58 a.m. or so over the next few weeks.
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The Cuban flag proudly waves next to the Venezuelan tricolor inside a Venezuelan military compound. HT: Memo Arocha, photo courtesy of El Carabobeño. PS: Busy today with work,...
A question for our enlightened readers
I’ve been mulling a post about Venezuela’s centuries-old claim on the lands west of the Essequibo river. But I have a confession to make: the whole topic bores...
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