I'm not sure what's up with Venezuelanalysis.com's weasel tactic of not giving their write-ups by-lines. They just say "by ...

Today, OAS head of mission Fernando Jaramillo (pictured) said there is no basis for the skepticism surrounding CNE. He said the Carter ...

It struck me yesterday, in the middle of a late-night email back-and-forth with Greg, that this racial debate is a distraction from another,...

...who's one of the of the Venezuelanalysis.com people. We don't agree on anything, but we ought to. We're both academics who w...

Because he's too busy implementing a kind of freelance foreign policy, that's why. Honestly, Venezuelanalysis.com should be emba...

I'm increasingly worried about the climate of deep skepticism in the opposition about the National Electoral Council's impartiality....

This morning, it happened again. A group of MAS activists - anti-Chavez socialists - was attacked by a small mob of government supporter...

While Hugo Chavez talks a beautiful left-wing game, his policies have pushed Venezuela into a massive and unnecessary debt crisis. The gover...

Imagine you wake up on just a normal Friday morning, turn on your local news radio station and hear this, read in newscaster's deadpan: ...

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., St...

...is that it actually seems to be working. Right now, Hugo Chavez has a single goal: survival in power. Oh sure, he'll talk ab...

Man, just when you thought Hugo Chavez couldn't get any more useless, he outdoes himself again. I mean, if you're going to have a f...

Official train crash date: February 12th. CNE must announce whether or not it will call a recall vote by that date. Mark it on your...

So, Danny Glover is in Caracas to witness the revolution's great strides in helping black Venezuelans. But does he have any clue how ra...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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