Other Voiceless
I don’t think I’m the only one going through this but, over the last couple of weeks, I’ve found it harder and harder to write. It’s a disorienting...
Politics
The perfect campaign
Last Friday, I was honored to be mentioned (twice, no less) in the Op-Ed pages of El Universal, one of Caracas’ main newspapers. I thank Miguel Ángel Santos...
If only we could be as efficient as the soviets...
The new “efficiency” drive recently announced by the comandante presidente was looking for a symbol to recognize and represent the excellence that the Chavernment wants its workers to...
Luis Pedro's Turn of Phrase
It’s not easy to think up ways to infuse life into the tired old political economy discussion we’ve been having since the 1930s, but Luis Pedro España manages...
On the necessity of a need
As tweet after tweet comes and goes discussing the need to go and vote on December 16th, an important question looms large in the minds of disillusioned opposition...
The red rooster makes a stand
Looking at the results of chavismo’s primary for the 16-D regional elections, one thing stands out: all the names selected for the governors’ races are from Chávez’s own PSUV...
Opposition posterior conveyance, in graphical form
Our serial purveyors of Venezuelan election maps have updated their parish-by-parish interface to create a nice graphical representation of how exactly our asses got handed to us on October...
How the Oppo Machines Fared
Longtime friend of the blog Omar Zambrano contributes this fun little ditty to the dismal art of 7-O-ology… It’s a cold, hard fact: electorally speaking, Chavez whipped our...
The half-baked ministry of oversight
During his last public interview of the campaign, the comandante presidente hinted at the idea of creating a new Ministry dedicated to somehow controlling the Chavernment, as he...
Why Izarra got sacked
With this tweet, Andrés Izarra confirmed the end of his tenure as Comunications and Information Minister (MinCI), a short time after the comandante presidente made the change public...
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