The Third Take on the Mezerhane Scandal
As far as I can see, there are three takes on the case of Nelson Mezerhane – the part-owner of opposition broadcaster Globovisión who got the hell out of...
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The guru
Following Juan Manuel Santos’ scorching landslide in Colombia’s Presidential election, much attention has been paid to the Venezuelan expert who, seemingly, helped turn his campaign around when Antanas...
How to read that C21 poll
So the June Consultores 21 snapshot poll leaked, creating a bit of a commotion among the commentariat. And for good reason: it shows Chavismo heading into September’s parliamentary...
The Pyongyang Moment is Nigh
I’ve long had this hunch – just a hunch, really – that sooner or later, in a fit of ideological fervor, Hugo Chávez is bound to align Venezuela...
FP suggests new friends for Chávez
Hugo Chávez has been included in Foreign Policy’s list of the world’s worst dictators. For any reasonable Venezuelan, this is just another embarrassment. For Chávez, it reads like...
The capital of Cumaná is Petare
BBC News has a video on the efforts to reduce crime in Petare. Reporter Will Grant toured with the Sucre police, and the piece is boiler-plate, a missed...
Aggravation Without an Upside
It takes a moment to digest the chart Setty puts up in his latest post. Overall, the Electricity Rationing measures the government imposed in the first half of the...
Reflections on an interview I only sort of half watched
Oh, admit it: you didn’t watch the whole thing either. Who would!? Chavez’s blood pressure raising hour-long tussle with the BBC’s Stephen Sackur never risked showing us anything we...
Sometimes a bankrupt bank is only a bankrupt bank
By now you’ve heard the news: that bank that the half owner of Globovision runs got taken over. The bank is Banco Federal, the guy is Nelson Mezerhane and, for once,...
Once every four years
It always goes like this. Every four years. I think I’m too old for it. I tell myself it’s all just a bunch of marketing and hype, anyway....
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