Stand By Your Man Chronicles
Showcasing once more his impecable sense of timing, Hugo Chávez picked Sunday evening for…a stirring denunciation of the Gaddafi Regime’s foes. And that, my friend, is how the...
Politics
Pablo Pérez has another bite at the launch cherry [Updated]
Better… UPDATE: Replaced clip with longer clip of the same speech. Snark after the jump…
That's not a campaign launch, that's a rancho en llamas!
OK, y’all will say I’m biased against UNT, but seriously, this is Pablo Pérez’s campaign launch? I’m sorry, but that’s very weak. It’s not just that the visuals,...
The Oppo Field: Pablo is up, Manuel is out, Leopoldo is on tenterhooks
Now that UNT has just one candidate, the time has come to update our Oppo Field Roundup. At this point, the Top Tier is pretty clear: Top Tier...
Vote for that guy!
Thoughts on Manuel Rosales’ proclamation of Pablo Perez as UNT’s candidate?
Birds of a feather
You know, this whole business with Chávez and Fidel just keeps getting stranger and stranger. At first we thought their relationship was that of mentor and mentee. Horrified...
Worst. Pinchazo. EVER!
VTV’s charming habit of broadcasting evidence to incriminate itself of illegal wiretapping has crossed some kind of chavista loopiness Event Horizon. At this point, the old take on...
Diminishing returns to the casquillo diet
The government’s latest orchestrated outbreak of opposition-baiting tirades is, frankly, tiresome. Time was when the opposition really could be riled, baited, worked up and even split by a savage...
Dispatches from the other end of the sanity spectrum
There’s something grimly funny about this story on reactions to Mario Silva‘s whacked out personal attack on Miguel Henrique Otero..and something pathetic, heart-rending about its studious avoidance of repeating the phrase...
9,621,334,845.49 vs. 314
Nine billion Six-hundred and twenty-one million Three hundred and thirty four thousand Eight-hundred and forty five dollars and forty-nine cents. That, according to new revelations from Mérida National...
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