... and then there were none
Yesterday, chavista muckracker Alberto Nolia called for Henrique Capriles, governor or Miranda and Venezuela’s most popular opposition politician, to be disqualified from running in the 2012 elections. PSUV...
Politics
Candidate watch (updated)
We know Oswaldo Álvarez Paz is going to be competing in the opposition’s primary. We also know that Antonio Ledezma is gunning for it as well. In fact, there...
STOP SHOUTING!
(Note: The following guest post, by longtime reader and fellow blogger Roberto Silvers, is an open letter offering some free political advice for Venezuela’s parliamentary opposition) by Roberto Silvers...
Off-his-meds Chronicles (updated)
“It wouldn’t be strange to find out that Mars had a civilization, but then perhaps capitalism came, imperialism came, and laid the planet to waste.” Hugo Chávez today,...
What do we stand for?
Este post está disponible en español. Venezuela’s National Assembly, our playhouse of populist political theater, sometimes – once in a blue moon – has to actually legislate. One...
How not to write a poll question
Over on the Spanish side we tut-tut Alfredo Keller’s question-writing skills…but still go on to pick out some of his results.
Aggravated Journalism
Lina Ron died following a Xanax overdose. The rumors that had been circulating to this effect were confirmed for CodigoVenezuela.com by a doctor on the scene. Imagine that: an...
In Praise of Ramos Allup
Yes. You read that right. The rest is in Spanish.
Could SENIAT be pulled alive from the wreckage?
Over in Spanish, Moraima thinks so.
The Passing of Our Bleach Blonde Pasionaria
Yesterday, following her unexpected death, I found myself in the odd position of having to explain who/what Lina Ron had been to someone who’d never heard of her....
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