Petro-dictatorship chronicles
Juan Cristobal says: – The autocratic ruler of a petro-state has just been re-elected President for an unprecedented third term after Parliament removed term limits from the Constitution....
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Chavez makes a power grab
Juan Cristobal says: – That headline is ridiculous, isn’t it? Chavez is perhaps the most powerful man in the history of our nation, more powerful than Simon Bolivar...
kombat karive
Juan Cristobal says: – The BBC has a video on indigenous Venezuelan martial arts. They don’t mention the government, but surely this is something they have their hand...
The "dictatorship" canard
Quico says: I’m always amazed by the kinds of debates that ensue when somebody in the anti-Chavez camp strays from oppo groupthink and declares something that, in the...
A step towards dictatorship
Quico says: If you read this blog regularly, you know how the loose use of terms like “totalitarian”, “dictator”, “fascist”, etc. drives me up a wall. After 10...
How squeaky clean is Teodoro Petkoff?
Quico says: So squeaky clean that, after what was doubtlessly a detailed investigation into anything and everything the guy’s been up to over a half century of public...
Criminalizing dissent
Quico says: Nobody could be surprised by Chávez’s decision to jail the man who, more than any other, saved his skin in the 2002 coup. The arrest of...
Green with envy yet, Hugo?
Juan Cristobal says: – Check out who Barack Obama thinks is the “most popular politician on the planet.” Hint: it’s not Hugo Chavez. http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/external/player.swf
The scarcity of scarcity
Juan Cristobal says: – Today’s edition of El Universal carries an interview with Planning Minister Jorge Giordani, Chavez’s economic pater-familias. Giordani is usually a bland, boring guy, but...
PSF-ari
Juan Cristobal says: – Kudos to Alexander Cuadros of Slate. While in Caracas, he sought out the foreigners who make the Revolution their home to ask them –...
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