Ad War Update: pre-campaña ends, official campaign begins
With the official campaign now upon us, what’s left of the pre-campaña is online: The Maduro campaign is going big on the figure of the comandante supremo. Here,...
Politics
How can people this inept win? By militarizing the mobilization effort, that's how!
For those of you keeping score at home, this is what Campaign 2013 is about according to Planet Maduro: The hateful opposition deserves our vengeance, love is the...
Sponsored hip-hop
You’ve probably never heard of Rebel Diaz, a hip-hop group from NYC’s South Bronx, whose music is top-heavy with ñángara politics. Days ago, they released a new tribute...
The Human Face of the Rotten Lettuce Scam
Over on Bloomberg, Joshua Goodman and Charlie Devereux put a human face on the sprawling Lechuga Verde fraud: One teacher said he needed to shuttle out of the country...
What the world needs now...
A Chavista youth group in San Francisco (South of Maracaibo) is offering to tattoo the signature of the comandante supremo for free. The group known as FIJU has informed...
You canNOT be serious!
Over on ForeignPolicy’s Transitions blog, Juan rues the state of the quickie campaign: The spectacle continues. Maduro announced that Hugo Chávez would be embalmed, only to backtrack a few days...
Piñata Ethics (Updated)
So I got myself in a bit of trouble yesterday. My wife, who is very not-Venezuelan read Emiliana’s story about the Semana Santa operativos with evident alarm. But worse was to come when she...
Semana Santa, Politics, and a side of Pescao Frito
Semana Santa, along with Carnavales, Christmas vacation, Indigenous Resistance Day and any other holiday that does not fall on a Wednesday and can therefore become part of a...
Democracy is a tombola
On paper, all Venezuelan electoral campaigns are funded through private donations, as the Constitution bans the use of public money for political parties. But the law is one...
Book of the Week: Comandante
Rory Carroll’s Comandante: Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela is BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week: an abridged version is being read on air in five instalments – 10 minutes each...
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