Hugo Chávez: Toxic Brand
How toxic has the Chávez brand gotten in Latin America? So toxic that even the candidates the guy has bought and paid for are forced to distance themselves repeatedly...
Politics
A well regulated militia being deeply threatening to the security of an unfree State...
Over in Spanish, I think the unthinkable about Chávez’s plan to press absolutely everybody into serve in his militia…
PPT + MUD = 50%
Now that splinter opposition party PPT has officially joined the MUD, we can point to one important achievement of the Chávez administration: it’s making allies out of parties...
His tone-deafness is pathological
Hugo Chávez is traveling through South America, and as we have come to know, this is always good news for South America, and bad news for Venezuela. Case...
Carlos Escarrá: Human Rights Hero
You. Cannot. Make this shit up.
... 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...
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...
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