Role reversal
Electioneering in the television age is really a matter of fixing a series of symbolic associations in voters’ minds. Candidates do this by composing a very simple story,...
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Mi Negra è mobile
Katy says: One of the main quibbles I have with the “Mi Negra” scheme that Manuel Rosales is proposing (see Quico’s interesting posts on the subject here and...
Selling guns to FARC? Moi?
A blast from the past: Vladimiro Montesinos, the one-time power-behind-the-Fujimori-throne in Perú, has been convicted to 20 years in jail for secretly selling 10,000 guns to Colombia’s main...
Mi Negra è mobile
Katy says: One of the main quibbles I have with the “Mi Negra” scheme that Manuel Rosales is proposing (see Quico’s interesting posts on the subject here and...
Selling guns to FARC? Moi?
A blast from the past: Vladimiro Montesinos, the one-time power-behind-the-Fujimori-throne in Perú, has been convicted to 20 years in jail for secretly selling 10,000 guns to Colombia’s main...
Would you hand over power to Satan?
Five years ago, when I started writing about Chávez’s strategy to “demonize” his political enemies, I never imagined the guy would get literal on my ass. But today,...
Would you hand over power to Satan?
Five years ago, when I started writing about Chávez’s strategy to “demonize” his political enemies, I never imagined the guy would get literal on my ass. But today,...
¿Quién es más golpista?
Recently, we’ve found that chavistas are shocked, shocked that somebody who has actually participated in a coup attempt might think he’s fit to be president. Will wonders never...
¿Quién es más golpista?
Recently, we’ve found that chavistas are shocked, shocked that somebody who has actually participated in a coup attempt might think he’s fit to be president. Will wonders never...
10 million votes ... $600 million
Katy says: I thought this article from the Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Group on the arms deals between Chávez and Russia was interesting. According to the author, the planes...
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