Ad wars: #CongresoCiudadano edition
This is the first promotional video I see for the upcoming Congreso Ciudadano. Whatever your opinion on the initiative, this is no two-bit, one-person show. Lilian Tintori, Gaby...
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Out of the closet
It must be frustrating to cover Venezuela for international news organizations. The country is crappy enough to make it burdensome to live there, but not nearly crappy enough...
Raise Your Hand if You Lost an Election but Still Went on to a Top Job Under A Different Leader
The key institutions that make up a democratic polity are not always formal rules set out in written documents. Some of the most important ones are informal: norms of behaviour,...
What's so offensive about a #CongresoCiudadano?
Tomorrow will be the launch of a new initiative inside the opposition, a citizens’ convention called the “Congreso Ciudadano.” According to its promoters, the idea behind the congress is...
Fifteen years is nothing
I found this El Universal interview with chavista heavyweight Alí Rodríguez particularly galling. Rodríguez seems to have let his guard down, and we appreciate that, but in the process...
The Week in Bullets
We came up with a name for the Weekend Recap column: The Week in Bullets. Even when you may end up drenched in blood with this edition, please...
Habemus Landrieu-gate
OK, so it took a few days, but finally a major political news outlet in the US is following the scandal involving Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu and her close, intimate...
Notes on a common misconception about the gasoline subsidy [Updated]
Whoops. The gas subsidy still sucks, but this post was wrong. Explanation below. Venezuelans have a hard time understanding the crazed extremes of mindless waste generated by our...
Stealth Censorship Chronicles
Since its acquisition by a mysterious, quite possibly bogus Spanish investment firm, Caracas newspaper El Universal has shown that it will follow the path of Ultimas Noticias and Globovision,...
A Tower of David update
It’s been two weeks to the day since the central government decided to evict those living in the the infamous “Torre de David”. So far, only around 25% of...
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