Crystal Ball Chronicles
28 December, 2016 – CARACAS From his hospital bed in Havana, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez decreed a raft of new revenue-raising measures to deal with the country’s chronic...
Politics
A closer look at Maduro's superpowers
Press reports about Nicolás Maduro’s new powers on economic issues don’t really do justice to what is going on. When you scratch beneath the surface and actually read...
Driving the nation
The latest Official Gazette informs us that the Vice-President (and appointed succesor) Nicolás Maduro has been given broad new powers in economic matters. Those duties include overseeing the...
Get over it!
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing, woe-is-me, apocalyptic writing about last Sunday’s results. I find this curious since, as Iñaki and others clearly point out, the results were...
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...
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...
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