A Night of Epistemic Closure
First, a confession: I did not watch last night’s misnamed “dialogue”. I didn’t need to. Nor did anyone else. There was no point. We all knew exactly how it...
Politics
Live-blogging the peace talks
5:00: scheduled time to start 6:10 Not yet started… 8:11 Starting. Maduro introduces those present starting with MUD folks. 8:14 setting is a big table with Maduro at the end. We...
Dialogue, actually.
Spoiler alert: The outcome of today's talks will be precisely the outcome the government will allow the opposition to have: that they shut up, give thanks, and go back to their daily business of not mattering.
More Deynas, Fewer Carlas
On Thursday, March 27th, in Costa Rica, the girls from the Vinotinto U-17 made history. The faced Canada, a formidable foe, in the World Cup U-17 in the quarter...
Roadblocks for democracy
Right now, the current debate in the opposition seems to be on whether protests are convenient or not. I think we should focus more on the type of...
Should protests end? Polls suggest so (Updated)
Two recent polls from opposing pollsters (one leans chavista, the other leans opposition) suggest patience with the protests is wearing thin. IVAD, a local pollster that has long...
Chavistas are from Mars, the opposition is from Venus
The worst part about Nicolás Maduro’s New York Times OpEd is not the amount of lies it contains, but the fact that most chavistas honestly believe them. Whether...
Crash dummy policies
Juan wrote a great article today with some really appalling numbers. 817 cars produced in February. January wasn’t great either. The first two months Venezuela produced 1,539 cars....
Pax Chavista
The government has been pushing hard the idea that they want peace. I don’t doubt it. But it’s a very particular type of peace. It’s peace through domination. It’s the peace...
You did WHAT to free health and education programs?!!
“Created” them? Did you just say you created them?! Watch me blow the rest of that gasket over on The New Republic.
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