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Sometimes, I like to clip the newspapers, cutting out references made by the President and his ministers against the opposition, the generalized attacks against the business sector, the...
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The whole recall mess ends up at the Supreme Tribunal...
…it was bound to happen. Eventually the constitutional injunctions started to fly, and by now it looks as though it will be the Supreme Tribunal who will decide...
Financial Times yawns at smoking gun...
This Financial Times piece can’t get worked up over a revelation that, two weeks ago, would’ve caused an uproar. “Diplomats say that a sampling of the disputed signatures,...
Financial Times yawns at smoking gun...
This Financial Times piece can’t get worked up over a revelation that, two weeks ago, would’ve caused an uproar. “Diplomats say that a sampling of the disputed signatures,...
100 Good Reasons Not to Believe Chavez
One of the most difficult points to put across to foreign readers, especially those who may be inclined to sympathize with a leftwing regime in a poor country,...
100 Good Reasons Not to Believe Chavez
One of the most difficult points to put across to foreign readers, especially those who may be inclined to sympathize with a leftwing regime in a poor country,...
High politics as a Monty Python skit
Even The Guardian is joining in on the fun. This one is pure Chavez as Joselo. Well, as an autocratic, power-mad lying Joselo, anyway… CARACAS, Venezuela – A...
Letter to a pro-Chavez signature collection witness
From today’s TalCual Digital. (Do subscribe!) This is a “Por la Libre” column, an essay by a reader rather than a regular columnist. Translated by me. Dear Ernesto,...
High politics as a Monty Python skit
Even The Guardian is joining in on the fun. This one is pure Chavez as Joselo. Well, as an autocratic, power-mad lying Joselo, anyway… CARACAS, Venezuela – A...
Letter to a pro-Chavez signature collection witness
From today’s TalCual Digital. (Do subscribe!) This is a “Por la Libre” column, an essay by a reader rather than a regular columnist. Translated by me. Dear Ernesto,...
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