The TSJ rubber-stamps the Maduro doctrine (Updated)
After three and a half hours of waiting, the president of the Venezuelan Supreme Court Luisa Estela Morales has declared in a press conference that President Hugo Chavez...
Politics
Young and Defenseless
by Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez “As Constituições são como as mulheres, elas são mais férteis, enquanto elas são mais violadas.” Getulio Vargas, Brazilian Dictator. First things first: that the government...
Taking Stock
To get a sense of just how needless the constitutional crisis developing in Venezuela really is, let’s just step back from the play-by-play and take stock of where...
¿Por qué?
Those looking at Venezuela’s hot mess from the outside can be excused for wondering: what’s the big deal? Let’s recap: the opposition wants a temporary absence declared and...
Life imitates satire
Two weeks ago, when I wrote this silly little satirical piece on what would happen if chavismo decided to just pretend that Chávez was ok to govern indefinitely,...
VP Maduro: No inauguration on January 10th (Updated)
Minutes ago, the President of the National Assembly Diosdado Cabello just read a letter from Vice-President Nicolas Maduro, in which he indicates that President Hugo Chavez won’t attend...
Capriles to foreign governments: Don't cross this line
In a forceful performance today, Henrique Capriles outlined the opposition’s stance re. January 10th. With Lara Governor Henri Falcón by his side (Hint: these two are a team)...
Marco Aurélio García vs. Ernesto Villegas
One of Brazilian President Dilma Roussef’s top foreign policy advisors, Marco Aurélio García, has gone on the record saying nothing will happen on January 10th, since the government can just...
Patently Obvious Chronicles
The trouble with the past is that it already happened. Take, for instance, this decision by the rojo, rojito Supreme Tribunal of Justice, dated May 26th, 2009 which touched...
Formalities in formaldehyde
One of the more salient points of these surreal times we are living through is that a Revolution spawned out of a formal oath in front of a...
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