Marquina doubles down
Both Quico and I are a bit busy today. Still, I wanted to highlight this interview with Dr. Jose Rafael Marquina by Spanish newspaper ABC. Marquina has become...
Politics
Your pick for Capriles's VP
Word is that Henrique Capriles will announce, among others, his pick for the vice-presidency tomorrow (Monday.) Who would you like to see in that role? The VP pick...
Ad War Update, cont.
HCR’s latest one-minute spot offer some highlights of his “First 100 days’ plan”, focusing on the adjustment of the minimum wage and stopping the regaladera to other countries:...
Great Moments in Hysterical Headline Writing
See that scary headline in Spain’s conservative ABC newspaper on Chávez’s “armed comandos” in case he loses the election? Scary!…until you read the actual text of the article...
Laureano nails it
Laureano Márquez has a wonderful piece today, where he weighs in on the milieu of the times. So if you’re the sort of person who thinks milieu counts...
Ideological Rigidity -> Mismanagement -> Corruption -> Repeat
My usual process when I sit down to write for a foreign audience is to ask myself: what features of the Chávez era are entirely evident to Venezuelans...
Hanging by a thread
The Venezuelan government is pretty bad at everything it does. But you know what it is tragically, prodigiously bad at? Running cable cars. Last Sunday, the Waraira Repano cable...
One also-ran out, four still in the running
The first withdrawal of the upcoming presidential election is now official: Yoel Acosta Chirinos, one of the main conspirators in the 4-F military coup attempt of twenty years...
The Wrong Type of Lightning
That’s right, folks. It’s not gringo mercenaries, wayward possums or Langley-trained iguanas that got El Palito refinery. It’s the wrong type of lightning: Petróleos de Venezuela reconoció que los...
Worth a Thousand Words Chronicles
Funny to see most major media shying away from showing the fire in El Palito refinery from this angle. Self-censorship: thine homes are many.
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