Capriles speaks: "El cambio está cerquitica"
10:16 PM: Live blogging Capriles’ speech. Adopting a somber tone, he saves the best bit for the post-speech press interview: “already there have been two defeated vice-presidents [Diosdado...
Politics
2012 Regional Elections live blog
Chavismo sweeps the board except for Miranda, Lara and Amazonas, with Bolívar on a knife edge. For the first time in who-knows-how-long, not a single Venezuelan governor will...
Low Turnout, Incumbents Toppled
Looks like an opposition landslide on dismally low turnout…here in Japan, of course.
All eyes on Miranda
Twenty three Venezuelan states will pick governors today, but there is one race that looms larger than the rest: the race in Miranda. If Henrique Capriles Radonski is...
Races-to-Watch Round-Up
With 23 state governorships up-for-grabs in tomorrow’s regional elections, it’s time to check again the state-by-state lay of the land, thanks to Gustavo Hernández Acevedo, who has been...
Maduro takes center stage
I discuss the Aporrea-roots reaction, among other things, over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, One commentator in the widely read pro-Chávez forum Aporrea criticized the selection of Maduro, claiming the vice-president...
Who's the one with cancer?
Daniel Pratt has this uncanny knack for making even the most nihilistic little rants somehow fun to read…it’s hard to put your finger on how he does it,...
A sobering thought
It’s strange to think that Hugo Chávez might be dead right now. Or he might die in the next 72 hours. Either way, we’d only hear about it...
Adventures in supraconstitutionality
Everyone is focused on quirky Article 233 of Venezuela’s Constitution. But what about its freaky cousin, Article 231? Here is what it says, in my rough translation: Article...
A Portrait of the Yes Man as a Young Man
I’m still amazed by the sheer dearth of information we have about our soon-to-be-president. Once more, Ultimas Noticias comes to the rescue, with a juicy article that’s long...
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