Ad War Update: The Final Stretch
We’re now in the last days of the presidential campaign and both campaigns keep releasing ads to persuade voters. First, the latest from the Capriles’ camp: This one...
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The healthiest breakup in the world
This second clip from Capriles’ appearance yesterday with Luis Chataing impressed me even more than the previous one. Here, he talks about being grounded, about his grandmother, about...
Keeping it simple
I woke up to read my friend Setty’s account of his few hours in Caracas. So far, he senses a lot of enthusiasm for Chávez on the street,...
I love love love the anecdote on 6:00...
Now that speaks to me:
The lines have crossed
But it’s not me saying it … it’s Iñaki, over at YVPolis.
Waste born of corruption, amplified by mismanagement and entrenched by lack of accountability and ideological rigidity.
Over on FP.com, pivoting off of that Reuters’ report on Fonden, I try to explain the way your morning paper will lie to you about Venezuela this week....
Chavismo now kinda hearts blackouts
The Chavernment has tried everything to spin the years-long problem of power outages around the country, from blaming the weather to denounce them as sabotage, and even pointing...
Psych-ops
In an interesting press conference today, Henrique Capriles said, among other things, that he has already selected a Minister of Defense, but he won’t say his name because...
It'll never happen again, baby, I promise
This is simply upsetting. Speaking to supporters in Cabimas, Chávez literally promises to “be more efficient, a better companion, a better person,” adding “I won’t fail you.” That...
Chavez's "47 percent" moment
The comandante presidente said the following during a rally in Maturin: “There can be some people could be unsatisfied with the failures of our government, that the streets...
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