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)...
Politics
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...
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...
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...
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