The coming demise of the Trollibarian Republic...
I probably shouldn’t, but I can’t help but point to this web comic, which made the rounds in the hours following Chávez’s triumphal return from Cuba last Friday,...
I probably shouldn’t, but I can’t help but point to this web comic, which made the rounds in the hours following Chávez’s triumphal return from Cuba last Friday,...
The current political/oncological drama shaking Venezuela presents a tricky situation for the opposition. On the one hand, they need to avoid the danger of appearing to gloat. Ultimately,...
When the comandante presidente went public with his cancer in June 2011, I was out of the country. When people asked me about it, I told them that...
Right in the center of the country, the state of Aragua has been a strong bastion of Chavismo, with the the last Presidential election providing the latest piece...
The Misiones, Hugo Chávez’s trademark social programs, have become the proverbial third rail in Venezuelan politics – nobody dares touch them because they are so damn popular. But...
JC’s recent post on VP Nicolas Maduro mentioned a news article from February regarding the situation of the joint Iranian-Venezuelan venture known as Venirauto. We’re now in December...
The Andean state of Táchira is considered to be the true bastion of anti-Chavismo, as the last presidential election can confirm. But this is one of the places...
Fifty members of a paramilitary group known as colectivo tried to take over a station of the Venezuelan Criminal Police (CICPC) in Caracas. Their objective was to rescue...
A couple of weekends ago, I helped a family friend count some money, a little more than 600 Bs. F. For an hour I felt like those money...
The most remote of Venezuela’s states was not supposed to have its election for State governor until late 2013. In the 2000 mega-election, the final result was very...
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