Annals of Rigged Baselines
Loved this bit from Food Minister Carlos Osorio, “In 2003, Misión Alimentación was launched with five shops and today we have 22,306 shops throughout the country, an increase...
Politics
The Economist suggests it's "untreatable"
Don’t miss two strong pieces from The Economist print edition on Venezuela. One is in the op-ed Leaders section, and focuses on Chávez’s efforts to hide the extent...
A wish for the new year
Merry Christmas everyone.
Hitchens on Hugo
Christopher Hitchens is dead. Love him or hate him, man, did he have a way with words. His excoriation of Hugo Chávez is something to remember, well worth...
Wiki-MUD
A few days ago, I received the first draft of the MUD’s platform. It is an all-encompassing 163-page document, filled with the opposition’s promises, hopes and wishes for...
"But I'm not dead yet..."
Give your mind a second to reel at the sheer extravagance of the cult of personality in the mural below, now on proud display at the Guardia Nacional’s...
The titanic struggle ahead
Today, Hugo Chávez launched a new social program: Misión Venezuela en Amor Mayor. Don’t ask me to translate that. The point? Making sure all senior citizens in Venezuela...
Poll Nerd Heaven
Can it really be that Ricardo Sucre’s massive trove of Chávez era polling slides has been hiding in plain sight for all these years, and I didn’t know about...
Did Luisa Estella really say it's OK to invade? (Updated: Probably, but doubts remain)
The media in Venezuela are abuzz with the latest sentence from the Supreme Tribunal. In it, the Court says that Article 471 of Venezuela’s Penal Code, which supposedly...
The state of play, video version
Trying to catch up with the state of the campaign videos. First off, this excellent biographical spot from the Pablo Pérez campaign. Next, a simple ad from Leopoldo...
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