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:...
Politics
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...
Red with envy
Hugo Chávez likes to boast that he is some sort of innovator when it comes to social policies and that the opposition has no answers. Never mind that...
Classist Bile Alert
Vladimir Villegas isn’t pro-Fernando Soto Rojas…but he’s definitely anti-anti-Soto Rojas. It makes for an interesting read.
The end of an error
Today, Venezuela’s opposition returned to the National Assembly they boycotted five years ago. They come armed with a sizable minority that, if this were a government that followed...
Resorteme Bait
One point that really can’t be made often enough is that the 1999 Constitution doesn’t magically lose its validity somehow just because nobody pays any attention to it....
Must be the U.S. constitution he's reading...
In a rare bit of (seemingly) good news for the opposition, President Chávez has decided to veto the Universities Law that the 95% chavista outgoing National Assembly just...
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