I find it amazing that, with less than two months to go, nobody but nobody seems to be talking about the December 4th National Assembly elec...

I've been rereading Political Order in Changing Societies, the book Samuel Huntington should be famous for, and would be, if he hadn...

Between 1936 and 1978, the Venezuelan economy grew faster than any other anywhere on earth. From 1978 onward, it shrunk faster than almost a...

Moneda de Plata Pura. Presidente Chavez y Acosta Carles. Winning bid: Bs. 85,000

Guaicaipuro Lameda's take on the here-and-now... For now, the opposition trumpets a precarious unity, shorn of political purpose, force...

The political opposition (i.e. the anti-Chavez political class) has painted itself into a strange corner over the upcoming elections. After ...

People see it as the "nuclear option" in Chávez's escalating pissing match with the Americans. Chávez himself calls it his ...

Chavez, we have to conclude, will be bitterly disappointed if Venezuela doesn't make the next Axis of Evil list. Really, he's done e...

Partly because I have a bit of time on my hands, partly because I just got a snazzy new net connection at home, but mostly because, erm...ho...

Think Pinochet and Videla invented the "desaparición forzosa"? Think again. José Vicente Rangel wants us to believe that Rómulo Be...

Mindless radicalization, anyone? Deputy Foreign Minister William Izarra received Yang Hyong Sop in Caracas and discussed the possibility of ...

Picture a Venezuelan middle class family. What image comes into your head? If you're like most people, you're thinking of the Mavesa...

by Alvaro Vargas Llosa From The New Republic Che Guevara, who did so much (or was it so little?) to destroy capitalism, is now a quintessent...

or... Very early attempt to build an account of chavismo on the basis of J.M. Briceño Guerrero's insights It is perhaps ironic that the ...

[These selected passages are translated from El Laberinto de los Tres Minotauros by J.M. Briceño Guerrero, available at the better Caracas ...