Another Dakazo?
The episode is seared into the opposition’s collective psyche: with his approval ratings already in freefall, Nicolas Maduro headed into state and local elections in late 2013 facing...
Politics
"I am filled with my country"
Before Julio Coco. Before Irene Saez, and El Conde del Guácharo, and Luis Chataing. Before Hugo Chávez himself, there was Renny. Renny Ottolina was the ultimate political outsider....
Forecasting the 2015 National Assembly Elections
Is it possible to forecast how many seats the government and the opposition will get in the National Assembly on the basis of National-level polls? It’s a tough...
Eulogio, Venezuela's mighty oil Czar
On Tuesday evening, President Nicolás Maduro announced what in revolutionary newspeak is referred to as a sacudón (shake-up), otherwise known to the rest of the globe as cabinet reshuffle. The most noteworthy replacement happened in the...
Cuban Doctors in Indentured Servant Limbo in Colombia
Jim Wyss has a shocking story in the Miami Herald about the sprawling state-sponsored human trafficking ring known as Barrio Adentro, and the Cuban doctors now getting stranded in...
Paranoid much?
Want to make Rafael Ramirez really uncomfortable? Start talking about the need for a Transitional Government, no matter what the context. The United Nations Security Council expressed support for...
Murder, Deceit, and Patriotic Cooperation
Turns out, Patriotas Cooperantes are sick, degenerate psychopaths being used by the chavista propaganda machine to orchestrate a media-fueled political scandal that could implicate opposition leaders in a gruesome murder investigation, just in time for parliamentary elections.
Chavismo's LGBT Problem
A couple of weeks ago, CC fellow blogger Audrey M. DaCosta wrote about Tamara Adrian, Venezuela’s fist-ever transgender candidate for public office. Her story made headlines and shone...
Fact-Checking the Perrarina Canard
You’ve heard it. Everyone’s heard it. In the early 1990s, the Venezuelan economy got so bad, poor people were forced to eat “Perrarina”, the popular dry dog food...
In Defense of Guerrilla Capitalism
Rigid price controls, coupled with strict controls over the movement of food from one place to another, can break down society’s ability to feed itself. It’s a lethal...
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