My friend Juana emails me with this pearl... For my part, my signature and my mom's will be eliminated because my mom asked me to fil...

I don't often link to Gustavo Coronel, mostly because we have very different ideologies. But I will link to this sensational essay on C...

I usually resist the urge to draw the obvious and often striking parallels between Hugo Chavez and George W. Bush, but just this once I'...

Let's get real here: the level of (arguably justified) mutual mistrust between government and opposition is so great that the ONLY way a...

Y'know, my obsessive interest in Venezuelanalysis.com stems only partially driven by the fact that I'm jealous of their slick web de...

Yeah, ok, so you could argue that the US shouldn't fund civil society groups abroad at all - and there's something to that argument,...

...today, my curiosity is blowing in a different direction. Venezuelanalysis.com is an editorially independent website produced by indivi...

The opposition has been rightly criticized for failing to offer a coherent, attractive vision of a future after Chavez. It's important t...

Grrrrr. For some reason, the comment software I was using (CommentThis!) just stopped working. I had to switch to a different system, so all...

Believe it or not, in between extended bouts of blogging, I do actually go to school sometimes. No, really, I do. My course work is ...

24 hours ago, I would not have thought it possible. But today, Venezuelanalysis.com publishes a thoughtful, sophisticated critique of FTAA. ...

As though on cue to make my point about its divisive, willfully provocative nature, the government that never ceases to attack its opponents...

One last thing on this Rivas piece: when government supporters are backed into a corner in trying to defend Chavez's economic record, s...

Over at venezuelanalysis.com, Emilio Rivas posts this bitchy, incompetent semi-response to stuff recently published here, so I thought I s...

Chuo I admire Chuo Torrealba. I think Chuo Torrealba has been a voice for sanity in an insane period of our history. So it pains me to w...

Today El Universal reports there were 13,500 murders in Venezuela in 2003. It's a staggering number. Let's put it in perspecti...

Time to step back from the political play-by-play – in this post, I want to explain to a broader audience how on earth Venezuela got into su...

The CNE verification roller-coaster saga continues, a rapid-fire alternation of seemingly dreadful news and, now and then, heady optimism. T...

...other pundits I read, but Teodoro Petkoff I follow. Teodoro is more than an analyst. He is a consistent voice for reason, principle and g...

Things are changing on this blog! 1.By sisterly demand, now you can post your comments at the end of each entry. 2.Check out the very ...

Aliana Gonzalez must be one of the gutsiest and most talented journalists in Venezuela today. Though I don't know her personally, I cont...