Democracy is a tombola
On paper, all Venezuelan electoral campaigns are funded through private donations, as the Constitution bans the use of public money for political parties. But the law is one...
Politics
Book of the Week: Comandante
Rory Carroll’s Comandante: Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela is BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week: an abridged version is being read on air in five instalments – 10 minutes each...
GoogleHangout with David Frum
A wide-ranging discussion with David Frum about Venezuela, the U.S., and what Venezuelan democracy activists can learn from the experience of Eastern Europe.
Ad War Update: "pre-campaña" edition
As Emiliana already told us, we’re not officially in campaign yet (it starts on April 2nd) but still the electioneering is in full swing as part of the pre-campaña....
It's a funny kind of anti-imperialism
Regardless of Nicolás Maduro’s rhetoric, the facts simply speak for themselves: We’re not just dependent on the U.S. as a market for the oil exports that pay for...
Delirium Tremens du Jour: 99 Red Balloons (Updated)
Click on this. Words just fail. [I can’t seem to embed just the relevant – by which I mean “staggeringly insane” – 40 seconds of the video.] Update:...
Riding coattails onto aircraft carriers...
Aircraft carriers are strategically crucial but massively expensive to build, so it’s not surprising of the ten nations that have real aircraft carriers, eight possess only one. In...
Assad and Maduro, still BFFs
In its last meeting, the UN Human Rights Council voted to extend the probe of the ongoing Syrian civil war until next year. The resolution was approved by...
Three Weeks Out: The Supposedly-(but-not-really)-Pre-Campaign Round Up
Let’s recap of the first seven days of non-campaign campaigning, or in criollo doublespeak: pre-campaña. Technically, you see, the official campaign only starts on April 1st and lasts a...
My so-called polity
I guess we can add this to the list of impossible things we’ll have to explain to our grandchildren somehow one day… Faced with the very real possibility...
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