Economy Crashes, Government Rejoices
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...
Chavenomics Headscratcher: (5 + 4.9)/2 = 5.8 (UPDATED)
By now you’ve seen the hair-raising numbers: Venezuelan GDP plunged 5.8%, year on year, in the first quarter. The detail that got me, though, was this: according to...
Chabuki watch, #3 (updated)
Former taxman José Vielma Mora will now be known as something other than "the only chavista who is semi-competent": a traitor to the Revolution! Here is Vielma Mora’s...
Wiki-constutionalism
The New Republic’s website has a nice article by Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez on the tendency in Latin America to write and re-write our Constitutions, a phenomenon he cleverly calls...
They're not even trying anymore
Seen this morning on the National Assembly website: tons of information about the governing PSUV party, not much on the institution itself or the work they claim to...
Six Terrorist Training Camps Around Caracas?
If the extraordinary allegations in this documentary book pan out, we’re through the looking glass here. El Palestino comes out on Tuesday. The journo who wrote it, Antonio Salas,...
In Defense of Speculation
Like "neoliberalism", speculation is a concept people feel comfortable decrying before they’ve quite understood it. Used by government and opposition alike as a term of abuse, the whole...
Chabuki watch, #2
Chavista svengali José Vicente Rangel puts on quite a performance: "The government has not stopped and will not stop trying to establish a dialogue with the opposition on the...
Chabuki watch #1
With the election season upon us, Hugo Chávez is going to try to convince voters that he is not the fire-breathing socialist leviathan that we’ve come to know,...
Up is down, down is up
An anonymous reader points out an interesting paradox. Instead of rehashing it, I’ll just reproduce her point verbatim: "I know you’ve already gone on at great length about...
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