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...
Politics
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...
La memoria es frágil, infiel y tendenciosa
The above video is of Manuel Rosales’ closing march in Caracas, in 2006. It was a memorable, heavily-attended apotheosis of people. A few days later, Rosales lost the...
Signs of the Times
As Capriles closes his Caracas campaign with one big rally, you can’t help yourself from reading the tea-leaves in stories like this: 29 de septiembre de 2012.- Un...
"Best Voting System in the World" Chronicles
And now, this week in crazy: Luis Piedra, director de la Oficina de Planificación y Organismos Subalternos del CNE, anunció que el partido político Unidad Democrática decidió apoyar...
Suddenly, it's Chávez playing into our narrative
Capriles has spent the last few months working to portray Chávez as out-of-touch with “the concerns of people like you”: a guy who let power get to his...
The real star
As I watch this video that summarizes the unadulterated emotion of the Capriles campaign, I keep thinking it has only one real star: the hat. When Tibisay Lucena...
MIA
Hard to look at this chart and avoid the conclusion that the Comandante Presidente’s health has taken a sharp turn for the worse in recent weeks. The guy...
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