How We're Like Nicaragua in 1990, and How We're Not
It’s become the stuff of Latin American Legend, and a favorite Caprilista talking point of the last few months: despite trailing badly in most well-regarded polls, Nicaragua’s Violeta...
It’s become the stuff of Latin American Legend, and a favorite Caprilista talking point of the last few months: despite trailing badly in most well-regarded polls, Nicaragua’s Violeta...
Reputable Venezuelan pollster Datanálisis has just leaked its final poll before the election. The results are jaw-dropping, but for the wrong reasons. Their poll, leaked to Bloomberg’s Charlie...
The parallel dirty campaign against Henrique Capriles is doubling down on the “Paquetazo” narrative and goes into fear mongering territory, with some help of CG animations: Beside the...
Both Quico and I are a bit busy today. Still, I wanted to highlight this interview with Dr. Jose Rafael Marquina by Spanish newspaper ABC. Marquina has become...
Word is that Henrique Capriles will announce, among others, his pick for the vice-presidency tomorrow (Monday.) Who would you like to see in that role? The VP pick...
HCR’s latest one-minute spot offer some highlights of his “First 100 days’ plan”, focusing on the adjustment of the minimum wage and stopping the regaladera to other countries:...
See that scary headline in Spain’s conservative ABC newspaper on Chávez’s “armed comandos” in case he loses the election? Scary!…until you read the actual text of the article...
Laureano Márquez has a wonderful piece today, where he weighs in on the milieu of the times. So if you’re the sort of person who thinks milieu counts...
My usual process when I sit down to write for a foreign audience is to ask myself: what features of the Chávez era are entirely evident to Venezuelans...
The Venezuelan government is pretty bad at everything it does. But you know what it is tragically, prodigiously bad at? Running cable cars. Last Sunday, the Waraira Repano cable...
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