My post-mortem
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I insist on seeing the glass 20% full.
Politics
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...
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...
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,...
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