If Wikileaks is right, Hugo Chávez is an American Stooge
The Wikileaks U.S. Diplomatic Cable data-dump – or rather, the first few shards of it, which is all we’ve seen so far – is a subject of deep...
Life
The day the far right really tried to assassinate the Venezuelan president
It’s easy to forget – and weird to think about – but there was a time when the foreign-backed fascists really did try to murder a massively popular,...
Far Out
Not three months ago, in reading through the responses to one of those occasional, naively-hopeful, instantly-pounced-on, ultimately-misguided Guardian pieces I like to write, I was amazed when one of...
No More Constituyentes - Please!
Sorry about the radio silence, folks, I’ve been travelling. Still, I felt strongly like I need to comment on Juan C.’s possibly inevitable Constitutional Assembly post, because it...
Dear Tucker Carlson: arepas are not pancakes
The headline in the conservative blog The Daily Caller? “We could eat socialist arepas together…” In case you’re wondering about this, on his trip back from a NATO...
Readers who write
Just a quick shout-out to two books from long-time readers of this blog. Vicente Ulive-Schnell is the author of “Yo maté a Simón Bolívar.” I haven’t read it, but...
A three-horse race?
Miranda governor Henrique Capriles Radonski was interviewed by Maracaibo’s La Verdad newspaper. It’s well worth a read, if anything to begin getting a feel for the message he...
The (possibly) inevitable Constitutional Assembly
Last September’s Parliamentary elections showed that, even with the cards stacked against it, Venezuela’s opposition could win the popular vote. Knowing this will serve us well in 2012, when...
6,000 people...?!
That’s the number of people employed by the Alcaldía Metropolitana, Caracas’ Metropolitan Mayor’s Office. You know, the one that Chávez basically hollowed out. The one that he insists is only...
Our future biggest FANs
Our youthful friends over at the Spanish-language blog “Sin el Chivo y el Mecate” have a new post up. In it, they address the fact that Venezuela’s top...
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