The Not-Quite-Impossible Dream: A Decent CNE
There’s an interesting story in El Universal today about the internal wranglings in the National Assembly over what to do with CNE. Though Chavez will undoubtedly have the...
Life
Getting our "isms" right...
Seems I can’t win: Chavistas regularly criticize me for calling the government an autocracy. Opposition people regularly bawl me out for refusing to call it a dictatorship. My...
Getting our "isms" right...
Seems I can’t win: Chavistas regularly criticize me for calling the government an autocracy. Opposition people regularly bawl me out for refusing to call it a dictatorship. My...
Do you want Open Threads?
Some of you have been writing in to complain that the comments section is going far off-topic too often. One possible solution is to start running “Open Threads”...
Dissent = Treason
Fidelismo 101 in action: “The presidential elections are coming and the opposition is all out of whack, divided, diminished…but we are not fighting against the Venezuelan opposition, but...
Do you want Open Threads?
Some of you have been writing in to complain that the comments section is going far off-topic too often. One possible solution is to start running “Open Threads”...
Dissent = Treason
Fidelismo 101 in action: “The presidential elections are coming and the opposition is all out of whack, divided, diminished…but we are not fighting against the Venezuelan opposition, but...
Thinkcrime update
RSF Warning: Dissing the powerful might be hazardous to your freedom Reporters Without Borders voiced concern after the state prosecutor’s office laid a charge of ”insult” against Napoleón...
Thinkcrime update
RSF Warning: Dissing the powerful might be hazardous to your freedom Reporters Without Borders voiced concern after the state prosecutor’s office laid a charge of ”insult” against Napoleón...
Missing the Point of Chavez's Anti-American Rants
The Washington Post runs this piece about Thomas Shannon’s probably doomed attempt to de-escalate the Caracas-Washington pissing match. Key bits: After an especially ugly week in the hostile...
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