May 29, 2004

Donde ronca Carter no hay chavista con reumatismo

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From a certain point of view, the opposition should be thrilled: needing to mobilize just 45% of the reparable signators (540,000 out of ove...
May 28, 2004

Ecco Rubicon

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We're on it, folks. It's a long crossing, it'll take five days to get to the other bank, at least. But this is it.

Another detail CNE forgot to disclose...

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From Today's Miami Herald Venezuela Has Stake In Ballots The Venezuelan government has a 28 percent ownership of the company it wi...
May 27, 2004

Weil

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A considered fisking of VIO's rebuttal...

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...of the WashPost's rebuttal of Chavez's rebuttal of their Editorial from a few weeks back - so a rebuttal of a rebuttal of a reb...
May 26, 2004

The Washington Post minus the gloves

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El Washington Post puede que coma flores, pero no mierda... Mr. Chavez's Claim Wednesday, May 26, 2004; Page A26 IN A COLUMN ...

Hugo Chavez in translation

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From the Washington Post... Ready for a Recall Vote By Hugo Chavez Wednesday, May 26, 2004; Page A27 CARACAS, Venezuela -- For ...
May 25, 2004

The Guardian 1 - Patton Boggs 0

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The government can spend as much as it wants on lobbying fees, but as the autocratic fangs come out more and more clearly, the foreign press...

On Chávez's Economic Boom

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from VenEconomy The Central Bank has released its estimates of the economy's performance during first quarter 2004. As expected, the...
May 24, 2004

Two Stories: Darius Rejali and Julia

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Story 1: In college, I was fortunate enough to learn from Darius Rejali, a brilliant Iranian-American political scientist specializing in ...
May 22, 2004

Ripley's Believe it or Not...

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This weekend, a number of Círculos Bolivarianos - pro-Chavez civilian neighborhood groups - are slated to organize a number of seminars to ...
May 21, 2004

Mandela sez...

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from Long Walk to Freedom Mandela is describing life in prison on Robben Island in the early 1970s, under a new Prison Comander, Colone...
May 20, 2004

Eva Golinger, Foreign Money, Double Standards and Jail

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Isn't transparency a wondrous thing? First, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, we learned that the US National Endowment for Demo...
May 19, 2004

Where's Janette when you need her?

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I can't even blog today. The situation is too depressing. I'm headed for Cardinale-level despair. My major is in jail on bizarrely t...
May 18, 2004

Strictly for nerds

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Why have I been blogging so sparingly? Cuz I've been working on my research proposal, that's why...

Conversation with Juan Forero

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Date: January 2003. (During the paro.) Citing from memory... JF: I just don't see why the opposition can't wait until the mid-wa...
May 14, 2004

Is this an ambiguous sentence?

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CNE recall regulations, artitcle 31... ...el elector que alegue que no firmó la planilla, podrá acudir al Consejo Nacional Electoral a los...

Happy Birthday, Andrés!

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Cardinale turns 41 today!...I propose a comments debate about how to cheer him up... (Incidentally, no more blogging from me until next...
May 13, 2004

The speck in your neighbor's eye...

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Excerpts from yesterday's front-page editorial from TalCualDigital, translated by ft. Faced with an event as grave as the arres...
May 12, 2004

Carter Center, OAS to Observe Recall Reparo Period in Venezuela

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Carter Center/OAS Statement, May 12, 2004 CARACAS, VENEZUELA - The Organization of American States and The Carter Center will observe ...

Poll results

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From a GQR poll of over 1100 respondents in face-to-face interviews, carried out in the last five days of April.

Comments software went down...

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...took down the whole site with it. Apologies. Mentadas de madre should go direct to Haloscan

Venezuela: Human rights under threat

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from amnesty.org All parties involved in the political conflict in Venezuela must show real commitment to respecting the rule of law...

Senator Nelson's Speech: Visionary or blunderer?

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I have to study today, so I'll just throw up this speech delivered to the US Senate by Bill Nelson, the Democrat from Florida. A few com...
May 11, 2004

The lowest form of mobocracy...

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The web poll... The capture of the Colombian paramilitaries... "Looks like a piece of theater put on by high school students...

Sanity on the Paramilitaries

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Well, it's still hard to know what to make about this whole hubbub. A few things we can say for sure: With astonishing speed, the cha...

Venezuela: Headed Toward Civil War?

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By the International Crisis Group About ICG Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter and wealthiest member of the C...

Compare and Contrast

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Interior Minister Lucas Rincón and alterego muppet Sam the Eagle. Opposition leader Pompeyo Márquez and his long lost twin, Waldorf

Bolivarianismo as Ideology

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Excerpt from Ideology and Terror by Hannah Arendt. An ideology is quite literally what its name indicates: it is the logic of an idea. ...
May 10, 2004

How do you really know what you think is true really is true?

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The latest scandalet in Caracs, over the government's discovery of a group of alleged opposition paramilitaries brought from Colombia, ...
May 9, 2004

Owning up...

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...Antonio Ledezma - like Cristina - doesn't exist. He's on Globo now ranting about how CNE cheated him out of his signature. It...
May 8, 2004

Just Imagine: Two dead after US troops set iraqi prisoners on fire

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SUBHEADS: New reports from Abu Ghraib prison include reports of deaths, all-night beatings, rape, electric shocks, tear gas used in confined...
May 7, 2004

Accountability and silence

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There's a funny dynamic at work in my comments forum - every few weeks some brave government supporter desides to chip in and post a com...