Seems I can't win: Chavistas regularly criticize me for calling the government an autocracy. Opposition people regularly bawl me out for...

Some of you have been writing in to complain that the comments section is going far off-topic too often. One possible solution is to start r...

Fidelismo 101 in action: "The presidential elections are coming and the opposition is all out of whack, divided, diminished...but we ar...

RSF Warning: Dissing the powerful might be hazardous to your freedom Reporters Without Borders voiced concern after the state prosecutor’s ...

The Washington Post runs this piece about Thomas Shannon's probably doomed attempt to de-escalate the Caracas-Washington pissing matc...

Teodoro Petkoff picks up on an old hobby horse of mine noting the similarities between Bush and Chavez lurking just behind the official an...

Normally, I stick to a policy of ignoring the tiresome propagandistic tirades that ooze out of Larry Birns' fringy-lefty Council on Hemi...

Gilberto Landaeta, allegedly the #2 guy in Danilo Anderson's one-time extortion racket, is taken off Anderson's murder investigation...

Back in 1999, I was a relatively naive 24 year old, and I'll confess I was genuinely conflicted about how to vote in the referendum on t...

From the enough-rope-for-PSFs-to-hang-themselves files: "We've got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money. He's a person ...

I got excited when I saw this article in El Nacional claiming that an independent think tank had tallied up the costs of Venezuela's ...

Is Chavez's vociferous anti-americanism just rhetoric, or is he willing to take steps that really do create a strategic problem for the ...

This line, from Hutton's take on last year's Youth Festival, got me thinking: "When I was here in 2000-2002 I don't rememb...

by Juan Carlos Zapata, in Descifrado en la Calle Cuba's G2 intelligence service has flushed out an alleged spy ring in the US embassy, i...

Well, for once random speculation doesn't blow up in my face. Hamas is coming, cap in hand, folks. As The New Republic points out,...

If I had a dime for every time a chavista just plain laughed at the opposition for refusing to accept International Elections Monitors' ...

This one's an old link (new to me) but still worth pointing to. Try as I might, I'll never develop Harry Hutton's genius for the...

Feeling a bit puckish this morning, so I'll subject you to this piece from Venezuelanalysis.com, along with my nomination for PSF of th...

A Castro-loving, Bolivar-worshipping, onetime baseball-player wannabe, Venezuela 's Hugo Chávez is perhaps the world's most openly a...

For years now the government has been yabbering on about something called "endogenous development" and the whole time I've bee...