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WTO Posts

When I’m not rambling about Chavez, I’m preparing a doctoral dissertation about the World Trade Organization. Here are a few posts on that entirely unrelated topic. First off,...

Francisco Toro April 30, 2006

Life

WTO Posts

When I’m not rambling about Chavez, I’m preparing a doctoral dissertation about the World Trade Organization. Here are a few posts on that entirely unrelated topic. First off,...

Francisco Toro April 30, 2006

Life

Unconstitutional decisions #4,931,674 and #4,931,675

It’s a detail, but telling: three of the “substitute National Electoral Council members” elected by the National Assembly are party hacks: Freddy Díaz, who worked on Chavez’s campaign...

Francisco Toro April 29, 2006

Life

Sovereignty is in the eye of the beholder...

Is it just me, or have Chavez’s lunatic outbursts been getting exponentially weirder? Yesterday, Chávez ripped brutally into Peruvian presidential candidate Alan García – calling him corrupt, a...

Francisco Toro April 29, 2006

Life

Unconstitutional decisions #4,931,674 and #4,931,675

It’s a detail, but telling: three of the “substitute National Electoral Council members” elected by the National Assembly are party hacks: Freddy Díaz, who worked on Chavez’s campaign...

Francisco Toro April 29, 2006

Life

Sovereignty is in the eye of the beholder...

Is it just me, or have Chavez’s lunatic outbursts been getting exponentially weirder? Yesterday, Chávez ripped brutally into Peruvian presidential candidate Alan García – calling him corrupt, a...

Francisco Toro April 29, 2006

Life

By their fruits ye shall know them...

Well, we finally have a new CNE. How does it look? At first sight, not great: Tibisay Lucena: Only re-appointed CNE member, has always voted faithfully alongside Jorge...

Francisco Toro April 28, 2006

Life

By their fruits ye shall know them...

Well, we finally have a new CNE. How does it look? At first sight, not great: Tibisay Lucena: Only re-appointed CNE member, has always voted faithfully alongside Jorge...

Francisco Toro April 28, 2006

Life

Jurassic Trade Policy

You can always count on Maria Cristina Iglesias to come up with aggressively ill-conceived policies. While her boss promises to further the cause of Latin American integration by...

Francisco Toro April 27, 2006

Life

Jurassic Trade Policy

You can always count on Maria Cristina Iglesias to come up with aggressively ill-conceived policies. While her boss promises to further the cause of Latin American integration by...

Francisco Toro April 27, 2006

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