The day the far right really tried to assassinate the Venezuelan president
It’s easy to forget – and weird to think about – but there was a time when the foreign-backed fascists really did try to murder a massively popular,...
It’s easy to forget – and weird to think about – but there was a time when the foreign-backed fascists really did try to murder a massively popular,...
Not three months ago, in reading through the responses to one of those occasional, naively-hopeful, instantly-pounced-on, ultimately-misguided Guardian pieces I like to write, I was amazed when one of...
Sorry about the radio silence, folks, I’ve been travelling. Still, I felt strongly like I need to comment on Juan C.’s possibly inevitable Constitutional Assembly post, because it...
The headline in the conservative blog The Daily Caller? “We could eat socialist arepas together…” In case you’re wondering about this, on his trip back from a NATO...
Just a quick shout-out to two books from long-time readers of this blog. Vicente Ulive-Schnell is the author of “Yo maté a Simón Bolívar.” I haven’t read it, but...
Miranda governor Henrique Capriles Radonski was interviewed by Maracaibo’s La Verdad newspaper. It’s well worth a read, if anything to begin getting a feel for the message he...
Last September’s Parliamentary elections showed that, even with the cards stacked against it, Venezuela’s opposition could win the popular vote. Knowing this will serve us well in 2012, when...
That’s the number of people employed by the Alcaldía Metropolitana, Caracas’ Metropolitan Mayor’s Office. You know, the one that Chávez basically hollowed out. The one that he insists is only...
Our youthful friends over at the Spanish-language blog “Sin el Chivo y el Mecate” have a new post up. In it, they address the fact that Venezuela’s top...
With the shift back to a Comments Free For All comes a necessary rehash for all the reasons not to have one in the first place. Here, I...
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