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A WTO Update

You can always tell when I’m spending less time obsessing about Venezuela and more time working on my dissertation by the volume of posts here. I’m preparing for...

Francisco Toro April 16, 2006

Life

A WTO Update

You can always tell when I’m spending less time obsessing about Venezuela and more time working on my dissertation by the volume of posts here. I’m preparing for...

Francisco Toro April 16, 2006

Life

Propagandizing the Chavista Party/Government/State/Nation

I hadn’t seen this when I wrote yesterday’s post, but this photo-rant (in Oil Wars, of all places) nicely illustrates the collapse of the distinctions between party, government,...

Francisco Toro April 14, 2006

Life

Novelties

I’ve updated the links column with some deliciously incriminating Chavez-hugs-a-tyrant pics, and added a link in the Reader’s Guide to this very lucid piece on Chavez in the...

Francisco Toro April 14, 2006

Life

Propagandizing the Chavista Party/Government/State/Nation

I hadn’t seen this when I wrote yesterday’s post, but this photo-rant (in Oil Wars, of all places) nicely illustrates the collapse of the distinctions between party, government,...

Francisco Toro April 14, 2006

Life

Novelties

I’ve updated the links column with some deliciously incriminating Chavez-hugs-a-tyrant pics, and added a link in the Reader’s Guide to this very lucid piece on Chavez in the...

Francisco Toro April 14, 2006

Life

III. The "democratic revolution" is a contradiction in terms

Democracy implies a clear delineation of the conceptual boundaries between “party,” “government,” “state,” and “nation.” Democracy conceives of the state as the institutional incarnation of the nation, something...

Francisco Toro April 13, 2006

Life

III. The "democratic revolution" is a contradiction in terms

Democracy implies a clear delineation of the conceptual boundaries between “party,” “government,” “state,” and “nation.” Democracy conceives of the state as the institutional incarnation of the nation, something...

Francisco Toro April 13, 2006

Life

II. The "democratic revolution" is a contradiction in terms

The essence of a revolutionary regime is permanence. The essence of a democratic regime is alternance. “No volverán” is the essential revolutionary slogan – the ideological rejection of...

Francisco Toro April 12, 2006

Life

II. The "democratic revolution" is a contradiction in terms

The essence of a revolutionary regime is permanence. The essence of a democratic regime is alternance. “No volverán” is the essential revolutionary slogan – the ideological rejection of...

Francisco Toro April 12, 2006

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