The candidate for people who hate politics
Yesterday’s campaign launch speech to the Primero Justicia party conference by Miranda governor Henrique Capriles Radonski was none too subtle about how he intends to position himself: as the candidate...
Politics
El Tigre and the opposition mononeuron
Over on the Spanish site, Raul Aular bucks Caracas Chronicles’s anti-dinosaur orthodoxy with a post making the case for Eduardo Fernández’s candidacy. It’s a neat piece of conventional...
The Emperor has no clothes
The saddest thing about the memos that Venezuela’s ministers sent to Hugo Chávez while he was convalescing in Havanna?
Setty takes me to Scam Academy
Oh man I laughed with this one. Arevenca’s scam is too baroque to summarize here: let’s just say that they make Ovarb look like Lloyd’s of London. Be...
Minister of the People's Power for Trash Talking About Housing
Today, housing minister Ricardo Molina called together a bunch of media for a ceremony in Táchira to deliver 48 new homes. Forty eight! Except, as Julio Borges keeps...
Winning, yet losing
I’m not feeling too optimistic about the whole Leopoldo López saga. Last week, the Interamerican Court for Human Rights decided that López had been unfairly barred from running...
Machado stirs up the right-winger in me
Maria Corina Machado gave a really good speech yesterday on the issue of crime. I mouth off in the Spanish site.
¡Que Ovarbaridad!
What do you call a firm that had existed for less than three months when it landed a $252 million contract to sell a PDVSA-subsidiary (Bariven) equipment that...
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Just when you thought there weren’t any rhetorical depths left for chavismo to plumb, we get this: “Miranda deserves a governor with a wife and daughter.” -Elías Jaua...
Electric Kool Aid Acid Guiso
You remember Chávez’s Electrical Emergency Decree, right? Signed during the blackout-prone days of early 2010, it allowed state agencies to circumvent normal public sector procurement processes to obtain...
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