The more you think about the revolution's trade policy, the less sense it makes. On the one hand, we hear Chavez attack any country that...

Well, thanks to Virginia I now have the text of the People's Trade Agreement Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia signed last month, and the thi...

Can someone find me a text of the Tratado de Libre Comercio de los Pueblos? Google isn't helping me here...

It's a shameless rip-off, but just for those of you who haven't seen it, I'm reproducing this graph of Venezuelan imports from a...

Just a few weeks ago, it looked like the Castro-Chavez left was on a roll in its struggle for hemispheric supremacy against the Lula-Bachele...

Just to prove that there's nothing creepier than a delusional paranoid with a long track-record of being right, here's Alberto Garri...

Con un subsidito de la capital... One last go at the WTO, and then I promise to get back to, um, writing things you all want to read about. ...

One obvious feature of the Multilateral Trade Regime is its mind-numbing, technocratic, outsider-baffling complexity. It's ironic, actua...

Nothing in the world of WTO negotiations is quite the way you'd expect. One startling example is the sprawling controversy over the US F...

Well, I've just finished my week-long WTO Negotiation Simulation (so be prepared to be bored silly with the details.) I have to say it ...

Interesting bit #1: Julio Borges welcomes the New CNE's decision to allow Venezuelan universities to audit the much-disputed Electoral ...

Here's just a taste of the Venezuela Chapter of the Interamerican Commission on Human Right's 2005 Annual Report: IV. CIVIL SOCIETY ...

Katy says: I have many friends who left Venezuela in the early '90s to study abroad, thanks to Fundayacucho's loan programs. Some o...

Katy says: Alfredo Keller has made public the results of his April study , which seem to confirm that: 8 months before the election, Chávez...

Katy says: One of the bad things about having a candidate with a history in the IVth Republic is that the campaign can quickly center on th...

When I'm not rambling about Chavez, I'm preparing a doctoral dissertation about the World Trade Organization. Here are a few posts o...

It's a detail, but telling: three of the "substitute National Electoral Council members" elected by the National Assembly are ...

Is it just me, or have Chavez's lunatic outbursts been getting exponentially weirder? Yesterday, Chávez ripped brutally into Peruvian pr...

Well, we finally have a new CNE. How does it look? At first sight, not great: Tibisay Lucena: Only re-appointed CNE member, has always vote...

You can always count on Maria Cristina Iglesias to come up with aggressively ill-conceived policies. While her boss promises to further the ...

Katy says: Venezuela's National Assembly (AN) will elect a new Electoral Council today. The board will be elected from a list of 126 can...

...now, a USB team has developed fart free beans.

The three main opposition pre-candidates to challenge Hugo Chavez in December's election held a press conference today and vowed that ...

Breaking news for the one or two of you who give a rat's ass about trade negotiations: with a week to spare, trade ministers have alr...

This one's fun: The Sofia News Agency is covering Teo's campaign launch under the headline Son of Bulgarian Emigrant Runs for Venezu...

Katy says : Gerardo Blyde is a keen analyst and one of the finest minds in Venezuelan politics. In an article published in today's El U...

Katy says: Quico is off on vacation, but I'm sure if he were online he would have translated Petkoff's entire speech tonight announ...

Katy says: If this breaking news is true, Chávez has just announced that Venezuela is leaving the Andean Community, a reversal of a decades...

One thing I've discovered is that it's useless trying to get a handle on the WTO negotiations from what you read in the press. The ...

The WTO is one of those things that only get weirder the more you learn about them. One baffling fact - the one my dissertation is centered ...