When numbers attack
Last week, the Chávez-friendly polling firm IVAD published its latest survey. The numbers are devastating for the government. While 48% of Venezuelans would like Chávez to end his term...
Life
All you need to know about the government's handling of the electric crisis...
If you can’t quite make it out, it says that after a first meter reading, Corpoelec found that 37% of major energy consuming companies had met the government’s...
Of Kings and Tyrants
One perk associated with my (otherwise embarrassing) fascination with ancient history is that I get to go on riffs like this: The ancient Greeks made a sharp conceptual...
Arturo Cubillas Fontán
I haven’t had time to quite digest it all yet, but I have a strong feeling that "Arturo Cubillas Fontán" is a name we’re going to be hearing...
Political Discrimination in Venezuela
I say Luis Correa is just the latest victim of chavista political discrimination. Illegally record a member of the opposition and you’re a hero of the revolution, your handy work proudly showcased...
Twenty one years ago yesterday
As we reach the final of February’s three unavoidable political aniversaries, here’s a question you seldom hear raised: what was Venezuela like on February 26th, 1989? Well, lets...
We interrupt the destruction of our democracy...
… to focus your attention on the strength of Colombia’s, where the Constitutional Court is set to reject a referendum on allowing Alvaro Uribe to run for a...
The Judges are the Thing
The more I look at it, the more I’m convinced that what’s truly important about IACHR’s report on Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela is its heavy emphasis on...
"As something of an expert in 'pure excrement', I can confidently say…"
Non-news doesn’t get any more non-newsy than Chávez’s blanket dismissal of OAS’s extensively researched, carefully drafted 300-page report on Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela as "pure excrement."...
Um, that's because ... there wasn't one!
Whopper of the day: "The Fourth Republic (Translation: the governments prior to Chavez) did not carry out the necessary investments to solve the country’s electricity crisis." Vice-President Elías Jaua...
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