March 27, 2003

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Mirador morning You turn on the tube, and there he is, giving yet another speech. But after a couple of minutes, you start to realize t...
March 24, 2003

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Life without Janet Like everyone who knew her, I was shocked and saddened to hear of Janet Kelly’s passing this morning. Janet was tha...
March 20, 2003

About the Author

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After four years as a freelance journalist in Caracas, I've run off to become a doctoral candidate in innovation economics at the ...
March 19, 2003

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The Power of Blogging There's nothing to blog about out of Caracas, but I am becoming frankly obsessed with the stunning writing goi...
March 18, 2003

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When blogging isn’t worth it. I’ve been somewhat delinquent about posting lately. In part, the news out of Venezuela has gotten really b...
March 15, 2003

About the Author

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I am a Ph.D. student in Innovation Economics at the United Nations University's Institute for New Technologoes in Maastricht, the N...

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Please direct all anguished rants, appalled tirades, horrified lectures and mentadas de madre to the email address on the right. It...
March 9, 2003

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Oh, there are all these things I've been wanting to write about...I can't seem to organize them all into a single coherent essay, so...
February 28, 2003

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Revolutionary justice So, Carlos Fernández got arrested – what’s the big problem? Listening to his speeches during the General Strike, i...
February 25, 2003

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Correspondence with a different first world lefty Foreign philochavistas come in two flavors: the ones who don't know what the hell ...

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I’ve been thinking more and more about these little stories, these stories that are rarely seen as important enough to get reported abroad, ...
February 23, 2003

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Blurting it out For a second, I worried it had been a one-off. But reading this AP story I’m more and more convinced that the foreign m...
February 21, 2003

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The Full Mugabe There’s one positive side to this whole Carlos Fernández incarceration hubbub: the foreign press is finally taking the g...
February 20, 2003

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The price of dissent What do you call a political leader jailed for his political views? A political prisoner, right? Just wanted ...
February 18, 2003

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NO CLUE We interrupt this essay series to attack Naomi Klein, of NO LOGO fame, who in a remarkably ill-considered piece in The Guardia...
February 14, 2003

The petrostate that was and the petrostate that is

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Too many foreign observers write about the Chávez era in a historical vacuum. But you can't understand chavismo without a feel for the p...