Chávez sneaks in through the bathroom window
So Chávez snuck back into the country at 2:30 in the morning with no previous announcement, no cameras around and only a 3 a.m. tweet to announce the...
Politics
A rejoinder on Leopoldo López's indictment
The substance of the accusations being brought 15-years after the fact against opposition leader Leopoldo López don’t merit very much comment, other than to note that that guy must really be squeaky...
Hedging on Venezuela
CNBC has an interesting article on the companies that are taking a hit thanks to Giordani et al. They provide some detail into the issue of why these...
Leopoldo López's future electoral viability bolstered
As the regime moves to put Leopoldo López in jail for the mother of all cold cases, I can’t help but wonder: Has chavismo really thought this one...
The oilman who came in from the cold
A friend from Washington writes about this bit of seriously unreported news: Igor Sechin, the CEO of Rosneft, Russia’s state-owned oil giant and one of the Kremlin’s most...
Losing the spin war
My immediate reaction after today’s “pictures” and revelations, in Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog. Whether it’s Chávez’s health or the economy, it seems the only “proof” we have is that...
First image of Chávez since December released
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas and Science Minister Jorge Arreaza have made public in cadena nacional the first image of the comandante presidente since December 8th, 2012. Arreaza showed...
Habia una vez un circo...
Almost five years ago, the comandante presidente created the National Circus Company, as a part of his cultural policy. A year and a half later, the Company set...
The fictional dollar gets a little bit less fictional
And so it’s official: the bolivar has been devalued to Bs.6.30:$1, with the never-well-pondered SITME mechanism abolished. On paper, a 46.5% 31.7%* devaluation should be huge news. The reality is...
My kingdom for a baseball cap
The Chavernment sometimes uses the mandatory simulcasts on all TV and Radio stations (known as cadenas) to promote its image and political agenda through elaborate infomercials, but last night...
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