The Living Constitution
As a lector avispao put it to me, the problem with my critique of the Maduro Doctrine is that I’m looking for the constitutional law in the wrong...
Politics
Reflections on The Maduro Doctrine
Este post aparece en español en ProDaVinci. Kudos to vice-president Nicolás Maduro for his epoch-making contribution to Bolivarian Constitutional Doctrine in remarks on the Constitution’s Article 231 – you know,...
An allegory of domestic bliss with a dark, dark ending...
Venezuela right now is like a marriage where the wife, let’s call her Populus, has only partial information about the financial affairs of her husband, let’s call him...
So Moises, Mark, Patrick, Anita, Miguel, Michael, Ray, Joy, David and I walk up to a bar...
…punchline here. Spending-led “socialism” can’t last. For years, Venezuela has been borrowing at credit-card level interest rates. As the country runs out of money and out of people willing to...
El binomio de oro
An “inspection” to a coffee factory in Caracas was the perfect PR opportunity for the Chavernment to present an image of unity, specially between its two top men:...
Schrödinger's President
Over on the IHT, I meditate on what a long, strange week it’s been… Given the impenetrability of Cuban state secrecy, it’s hard not to speculate that even...
A quiet, tragic exit for a man who did everything with a bang
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I begin to say goodbye. (Registration now required, although it’s free)
Maduro's "mi comandante" problem
If you search the words “mi comandante” on Twitter, you’re likely to run into a long series of prayers from concerned chavistas. Almost in unison, they hope for...
The Saturday Shuffle
The next big date in the charade that has become the transition process in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela is January 5th. This is when the National Assembly reconvenes to...
Ten Years Ago Tonight
There’s a strange symmetry to it: exactly ten years ago tonight, amid the outbreak of collective mass delusion that was the 2002-2003 Paro, tens of thousands of us were...
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