Does a scribble prove a life?
Yesterday, Nicolás Maduro named Elías Jaua Foreign minister, or rather, he announced that Chávez had named him. Today, the official newspaper of the Venezuelan government (where all public...
Politics
Chavismo is coming for grandma
… and I mean that literally. According to La Verdad, a Maracaibo newspaper, José Álvarez, a rural Táchira native, tortured and killed his 80-year old mother because “god”...
Devaluation around the corner? Not so fast
Over at the Foreign Policy blog (login required now), I cast doubt on the conventional wisdom that the government is going to have to devalue the Bolívar soon,...
Meet the VP of the VP
Former Vice-President Elias Jaua has been named new Foreign Affairs Minister. That’s his consolation prize after losing the Miranda State election last month. Back in October, he said...
The Animalfarmification of Our Politics
Univisión’s Manuel Rueda is on the case, Imagine the following script: A wildly popular leader of a tropical country wins an election and then heads to a foreign...
Villegas drops the communicational ball
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas took his anger to the twittersphere yesterday to denounce an “unscrupulous” alleged fake photo of Rosinés, the comandante presidente’s youngest daughter, with rapper Nicki...
Read this
Israel Centeno in El País, (an English version is here.) Un gobierno autocrático que se ha adueñado de todas las instituciones del Estado no informa, no dice la verdad;...
Brazil turning the screws
Oh yeah, they’re really letting Maduro have it now. </irony>
The gang's all here!
It has been a crowded weekend in Havana so far. First, two Latin American presidents tried unsuccessfully to visit the comandante presidente: Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and...
The day after
January 10th has passed. Chávez did not show up for his swearing in, but his “people” took the oath in his place, because the people are Chávez, and...
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