How to read that C21 poll
So the June Consultores 21 snapshot poll leaked, creating a bit of a commotion among the commentariat. And for good reason: it shows Chavismo heading into September’s parliamentary...
So the June Consultores 21 snapshot poll leaked, creating a bit of a commotion among the commentariat. And for good reason: it shows Chavismo heading into September’s parliamentary...
I’ve long had this hunch – just a hunch, really – that sooner or later, in a fit of ideological fervor, Hugo Chávez is bound to align Venezuela...
BBC News has a video on the efforts to reduce crime in Petare. Reporter Will Grant toured with the Sucre police, and the piece is boiler-plate, a missed...
For Hugo Chávez to declare "Economic War" in June 2010 is a little bit like for Adolf Hitler to take 5 minutes off his busy schedule on April...
Yesterday marked another insane low in the festering of Hugo Chávez’s Revolution. In the process of slamming the opposition for supposedly rejoicing over the first quarter drop in...
The final moments of Quico’s "el loco comemierda" post left me wanting more. He wrote, "But remember: it’s the economy, stupid. It always is. More than the crazy...
It’s a hardy perennial of Venezuelan political divination: "is Chávez losing it?" To answer that, I think we have to refer back to that unbelievably rude but prescient criollo saying:...
The thing to grasp here is that nobody set out to design the system we have. It evolved from a chavista Marramucia (dirty trick) and ended up enshrined...
Seems like the COL (Costa Oriental del Lago, for all you non-zulianos) gets a nice deal on electricity: between 1 and 2 US cents per kWh, depending on...
Is it just me, or do the Opposition’s Unity Roundtable promoters treat the MUD more or less the way the parent of a Down Syndrome kid might treat her kid:...
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