Chávez and Gaddafi: The Axis of Unpaganda
After initially dithering, Hugo Chávez has now decisively taken sides in the rhetorical contest between Muamar Gaddafi and the Sane World. In the face of what is now...
Life
Development is a state of mind
“In this country, GDP per capita could hit $20,000 per year, and people would still think like backwards Latin American assholes.” The words from my Chilean friend shocked...
Dog-bites-man Chronicles
The BBC is shocked, shocked that in Cuba things don’t work. The New York Times is appalled, appalled that there is corruption at the highest levels of the...
What do we stand for?
Este post está disponible en español. Venezuela’s National Assembly, our playhouse of populist political theater, sometimes – once in a blue moon – has to actually legislate. One...
A fundamental unseriousness
If it had the slightest interest in such things, chavismo could build an honest, cogent, powerful case against international intervention in Libya. It could point out the thicket...
I'll see your 16,000 murders and raise you a meeting in Germany
Over on CronicasDeCaracas.net, even the legendarily equanimous MoraimaG can’t help but blow her top at Chávez’s waste-of-protoplasm-as-tourism-minister Alejandro Fleming Cabrera.
Yucky Bedfellows Chronicles
Something is very wrong in the world when the international figure I most agree with on the Libyan crisis is…Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Giving up the search for the fifth leg on the cat
Over in Spanish, Raúl Aular explains why you should.
Tahrir vs. Altamira
My new column for The New Republic – a personal meditation on the drama of Tahrir Square as seen from a Venezuelan exile’s perspective – is now up...
The glut around the corner?
CNN is reporting that other countries are joining Saudi Arabia and raising crude production in light of the prolongued conflict in Libya. The list, as you can fathom,...
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