Boiling it down
In Caracas Chronicles en Español CronicasDeCaracas.net: the transition in three bullet points.
Politics
Right Guard?
Reading my review of Randy Brewer’s book on The New Republic, Alejandro Tarre demanded a right of reply. Isaiah Berlin once wrote that, “as an intellectual discipline, it...
Transitional justice
A man makes millions of dollars helping Colombian guerrillas ship cocaine to hungry markets via Venezuela. Or he makes them through bribing financial institutions in order to exempt them...
Don't think of an elephant!
Hugo Chávez has a new pet peeve. Whatever you do, do not call him a dictator! Today he showed how much it annoyed him, when he said that if...
Dismantling Allan Brewer-Carías
My review of Allan Brewer-Carías’s simply unreadable brick, Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela, is now up on TNR’s Book Review site. Fun bit: Perhaps Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela should be...
Enlace Venezuela: Getting Serious About The Day After
In this special guest post for 23 de enero, Jose Ramón Morales Arilla announces an exciting initiative to start in on some serious planning for What Comes Next:...
The early 2012 Jockeying Report
They may not be doing it publicly yet, but make no mistake about it: the opposition’s early hopefuls for the 2012 presidential nomination are already quietly but actively...
Talk about talking
As the government starts calling for dialogue, you may get a distinct feeling of déjà vu. After all, isn’t this the exact same thing Chávez did the last...
The real reason he's being so friendly
His numbers are in the tank. Percentage of people saying Venezuela is either stuck or in decline: 68.4%. Percentage of people who think the country is headed in...
File this under dog bites man
Hugo Chávez took a surprisingly moderate tone in Saturday’s State of the Union address. He even went out of his way to shake the hand of opposition deputies. Some...
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