26S Swing-o-Meter
The Swing-o-meter – a tool to estimate the impact that a given shift in the popular vote would have on the overall composition of parliament – is surely...
Life
Our MUDdled, MUDdled messaging..
Don’t get me wrong. I have no reason to doubt that Hiram Gaviria is a perfectly decent sort of fellow. He’d make a quite suitable school principal, possibly...
Santos : Uribe :: Obama : Bush
The era of cross-border hyperconflictivity is over. Thank God for that. http://www.youtube.com/v/szaYzLgMM9E&hl=en_US&fs=1
Mimicking Bogotá
The Sucre Municipality in Caracas has started a program to educate people on the streets on basic transit norms. The BBC took notice (in Spanish). The program uses...
In Praise of Panfleto Negro
Naturally, it ought to be drivel…but it isn’t. Thanks to the careful stewardship of its founders, the site manages to remain measured, original, and vital. Some of the...
Censorship without censors
Be sure to check out my new piece in TNR, on the sacrilegious thought that shutting down RCTV and those radio stations is one of the smartest moves...
Battling the Scourge of Microlatifundia
Here’s one that’s slipping under the radar. Recall how the 1999 constitution bans especially large landholdings – "Latifundia"? Well, funny thing. It turns out the recently amended Land Law’s new Article...
The Case of the Vanishing Monetary Base Data
If, reading that, you’re gripped by an overpowering urge to click off and go watch a video of a duck riding a skateboard…well, I can understand that. But...
Oliver Stone watch #3
As some of you will know, there’s a charming little show on State TV called "La Hojilla." Technically a political talk show, it’s mostly catnip for the most...
Chabuki watch #8
Communists?! ¿Quién dijo? To hear chavista candidate to the National Assembly (and former two-term governor of Delta Amacuro) Yelitza Santaella tell it, this government is almost right wing:...
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