January 9, 2004

Put it another way...

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If the government does get its way, and the Central Bank does hand over the "millardito", what will the government do? It can'...
January 8, 2004

Note on the latest deranged Chavez plan…

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The president's plainly unconstitutional request for the Central Bank to hand over “just one little billion” in foreign reserves lays ba...
January 7, 2004

The bonfire of the government's rhetoric...

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Pointing out inconsistencies between Chavez's rhetoric and his government's actions is like shooting fish in a barrel. Still, someti...

Snippet of conversation with my Malaysian prof...

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Him: But how much democracy is there, exactly, in Venezuela? I mean, the situation there is not like in Malaysia, is it, where the oppositi...
January 6, 2004

Contrast and compare:

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(or, case study on what happens when your vote is secret, but your signature ain't...) Item 1: Article 145 of the Venezuelan Const...
December 31, 2003

Today, I will break a personal rule...

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...and blog about a subject other than Venezuela. Kind of. The BBC (and everyone else) reports today that US authorities have named a sp...
December 27, 2003

Radicales y comeflores

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Most newspaper readers in the English speaking world know alarmingly little about Venezuela in general, so it's hardly a surprise that t...
December 21, 2003

Perceptive as usual...

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...Erica Stephan writes in to let me know I totally missed the point in my last entry... From "Erica Stephan" Date Sat, 20 ...
December 20, 2003

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Back-and-forth with Greg Wilpert I really don't agree on much with Greg Wilpert, the Venezuelanalysis.com guy, but I respect his integ...
December 5, 2003

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This blog... ...is about to go more or less quiet, since I'm off to Romania for the holidays starting today. I may post from net caf...

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In breathless praise of Sumate: (or, Essay on the difference between voter intimidation and colossal bullshit) From: "Erica Stepha...
December 4, 2003

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Last thing If you need any more convincing of which side collected the signatures it says it collected, witness the Bs:$ rate on the sem...

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The thing about the actas The other aspect that people often lose sight of is that we are ALL being spun silly with numbers. Somebody i...

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An Ibsen Martinez tour de force Rather than boring you with yet more of what I think - which I think is pretty well established by now -...

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The less enlightening face of chavismo writes in... From: Richard Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 2:39 PM To: caracaschronicles@fastmail.f...

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CNE: Rediscovering the institutional wheel (or, more email from Alan) On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:53:28 -0400, Alan said: > Francisc...