Qaddafi's drainage pipe and the opposition's soul
This is not the time for misguided adventurism. Magical thinking will not avert the oncoming Constitutional Crisis, and revenge fantasies won't re-establish the rule of law in Venezuela.
"PSUV will challenge the election of 22 deputies," MUD says.
MUD members gave a press conference today to confirm a rumor that has been going around since last week. Apparently, the electoral chamber of Venezuela’s highest court (the TSJ), was...
Saving chavismo
Diosdado and Nicolás are doing their darndest to make sure chavismo disappears. That ... is not necessarily a good thing.
Four Chavista Governors and Caracas Mayor Bullied at Voting Centers
As the voting unfolds, we’ve been seeing something new. We’ve been receiving videos, left and right, of high profile chavistas being bullied and heckled as they go to their local voting centers...
A supermajority kind of sucks too, though
I have this dark vision that after the elections we’ll be making great efforts to explain —on repeat mode— to a non-believing mass that a simple majority doesn’t really suck. Or at least, that it sucks in the same way as a supermajority would.
When is a forex crime not actually a crime? When you've decriminalized it, that's when.
Just a year ago, Venezuela effectively decriminalized parallel Forex trading. Half the government seems to have forgotten they did that, the other half seems to be regretting it.
Up With This We Will Not Put: Chavismo has Ruined the McDonald's French Fry
Thrilled your good, old fasioned Mickey-D's french fries are back? You may be in for something of a shock...
The Real Cadenas
The only Rafael Cadenas text most people have read is an execrable little screed misattributed to him. The real Cadenas is just so much better.
No Country for French Fries
“Mommy, can we get some French fries?” asked my daughter as we drove past the massive granite monolith that is the McDonald’s store of La Castellana in Caracas....
Sh!tstorm Chronicles
Before signing off from his weekly TV show, the disaster was brought to the President’s attention, and he went on to criticize the ultraderecha twitter commentators who blamed his...
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