Where does $150 translate into more votes? In New Orleans? Or in Guasdualito?
Be forewarned, gentle reader: I come to bury the Mayamero voter in New Orleans, not to praise him. By now, you’ve probably heard the story: in one of its upteen...
Politics
Credibility Chronicles
A fun digression on writing about Venezuela, from guest blogger Daniel Lansberg Rodríguez. Everyone’s done it at some point – hitting send on a text message, email or...
Who is Maduro?
My take on the big, fat question mark we may be electing tomorrow – over at Transitions, by Foreign Policy. An excerpt: One of the failures in this...
A campaign like no other
So here we are. After everything we’ve been through, we are faced with yet another campaign weekend. This Sunday, everything is on the line … again. This campaign...
Ad War Update: wrapping things up
The briefest campaign in Venezuelan history has come to an end, and here are some of the last minute ads launched by the contenders. We begin with an...
Nicolás's April 11th
While Juan is off licking his ego-wound (what’s up with that?!) I’m sitting wondering…is there even an official version of what Nicolás Maduro was up to 11 years...
La cara pública del fracaso de Capriles
Si Henrique Capriles termina perdiendo este domingo – tal como predicen muchas encuestas – vamos a tener que comenzar a buscar culpables. Yo voy a comenzar por una:...
Playing the victim
Yesterday, our mental-patient-in-chief released a doozy: he complained openly, bitterly, sheepishly about how “the bourgeoisie” and “the media” are ganging up against him, and about how the other...
My embassy, my party
There’s no secret that the real political apparatus for the Maduro campaign is the Venezuelan State, and that use has even extended outside of our borders. In a...
Maduro's Advantage is Still Underanalyzed
Just about a month ago, I posted this round-up of the race as I then saw it. As I sit down, from far away, to try to re-evaluate where...
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