Capriles, the Miranda pitbull
My previous post on what Henrique Capriles needs to do in his next Presidential election caused a bit of a misunderstanding. Let me start off by putting some...
Politics
Chávez's squalid victory
We all think Hugo Chávez won big in October. Guess what? His victory is pretty small relative to how incumbents usually do in Latin America. Take it away,...
President Maduro's first political prisoner
Not content with throwing Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni in jail, chavismo now throws her lawyer in jail for “obstruction of justice.” Great PR move, geniuses.
Zaperoco brewing in Bolívar (Updated)
The election in Bolívar State ended up closer than expected. Late Sunday night, incumbent Chavista governor Francisco Rangel Gómez was declared winner by a narrow margin. The latest...
Grow some sack
This article by the inimitable Ibsen Martínez points to a very serious problem any eventual Capriles campaign would face: the restlesness the hardcore opposition feels toward any sort...
Thing is, those grapes really are sour
I think Juan is looking for silver lining’s in all the wrong places. The reality is that yesterday’s election shows Maduro as a hands down favorite to win...
My post-mortem
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I insist on seeing the glass 20% full.
Lester deserved to lose (and he's not the only one)
Last week, I went to Merida to visit some relatives. When I was a kid, I loved visiting my grandma there. I loved the weather and the city....
Macro trends and micro stories
Today, everyone has a theory about what happened yesterday: people going on vacation, abstention, voters feeling sorry for Chávez, populism. But while there may be some truth in...
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