João Santana: Svengali for the wicked (Updated)
This Foreign Policy post on João Santana was pretty interesting. Santana is one of the more succesful of a cadre of Brazilian political consultants changing the landscapes of many...
This Foreign Policy post on João Santana was pretty interesting. Santana is one of the more succesful of a cadre of Brazilian political consultants changing the landscapes of many...
The central state of Carabobo, known as our historical and industrial heartland, presents an interesting case for the 16-D election. The comandante presidente won there this year but...
News this week that Venezuelan Silicon Starlet Rosita, a.k.a. Jimena Araya, a.k.a. the Pran Madame is to be made Regional Director of Human Rights in Aragua for the expropriated PODEMOS...
The original talanquera-jumper Francisco Arias Cárdenas faces an uphill battle to win the Zulia State Governorship, even if the comandante presidente won last month in Maracuchistan and he’s keeps...
The CNE and the Chavernment keep insisting over and over again that Venezuela has the “best electoral system in the World”. I consider that statement a lie, pure...
Trujillo State Governor Hugo Cabezas announced that he has declined to run for a second term, even though he was endorsed by the comandante presidente himself weeks ago...
The new “efficiency” drive recently announced by the comandante presidente was looking for a symbol to recognize and represent the excellence that the Chavernment wants its workers to...
With this tweet, Andrés Izarra confirmed the end of his tenure as Comunications and Information Minister (MinCI), a short time after the comandante presidente made the change public...
Estimados Consultores 21, I read your communiqué published yesterday with some confusion, and the distinct sense that you really haven’t grasped the full magnitude of the damage last Sunday...
Clive Crook is right, “elected autocrat” really is a confusing category. But Crook does not go far enough. The issue isn’t that Chávez gets elected despite being an...
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