Katy says: Loyal reader and fellow blogger Bruni (I assume those are her eyes at left) has a great post today regarding the accuracy of fing...

Katy says: Did you know that, according to Prof. Marino González of Simón Bolívar University, the total spending on weapons Chávez has anno...

Katy says: Several things from the news this morning that are worth commenting. 1. If it's bad to be rich, Jorge Rodríguez is one baaaa...

In the last salvo in our Opinion Duel on Benjamin Rausseo, Quico says that Katy makes her case as if chavismo had never happened. The Duel i...

Katy says: Fidel Castro is undergoing intestinal surgery and has handed over power to his brother.

... has begun. Katy says Quico is just another desperate blogger. Stay tuned for Quico's response.

It has started. Katy wrote there is no spoon for her in this sancocho. Quico replies that Katy is giving a gift horse a root canal...

Alright, Katy - if that is indeed your real name - things have gone far enough. I shall suffer your Guacharophobia in silence no more. The...

The Guachinton Pos picks up an AP story about Rausseo... "He's ugly, I'm ugly ... I talk, he talks. But the difference is I l...

Ask yourself this: what drives people's voting in the TV age? Is it experience? "Preparation"? A government program? Ideology?...

...or: method to the madness. As Condemania grips the nation, the question looms ever larger: who exactly is behind Benjamín Rausseo? Frank...

Well, it had to come to this: Benjamín Rausseo, much better known as El Conde del Guacharo, has launched his presidential bid. It's a bi...

Those of you who've used the "subscribe" thingy to get Caracas Chronicles delivered to your inbox know that the software I was...

Click here to listen to the interview. In the second Skypecast in a series on Venezuela's economic collapse, I interview Jonathan DiJ...

Ah, the harvest of incriminating quotes has begun. Here's Huguito on Belarus: "I have come here to conclude a unity pact. Here we s...

Here's a study in contrasts: Julio Borges launching PJ's Progreso Popular plan: Teodoro Petkoff launching his candidacy Manuel Rosal...

The current New York Times Magazine carries this stunning feature on North Korea's super-sophisticated operation to counterfeit US do...

In his inimitable style, Harry Hutton nails a point I've been trying to make for a long time. It's just that when he does it, you l...

Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales finally had a proper presidential campaign launch yesterday, giving a good old fashioned, nasal-toned populis...

Turns out Hugo Chávez still wants to go to North Korea, but Pyongyang seems to be playing hard to get. Could Kim Jong Il bear to sit around...

It's a point GP keeps making in my comments section, and it's a good one: for most Chavez supporters abroad, Venezuela didn't e...

The Miami Herald's Steven Dudley adds one more article to a fast growing subgenre of journalism about the Chavez era: The Bolibourge...

Hat tip to Brett...

Crime is the issue Venezuelans are most worried about. It's also the issue where they rate Chavez's performance worst. Here's...

From a polling perspective, it's a no-brainer. The issue most people identify as the country's biggest problem is also the one wher...

Pro-Chavez National Assembly Members José Albornoz (PPT) and Ismael García (Podemos) are asking the Prosecutor General to jail Sumate's ...

Katy says: The debate that raged in the comments section (see Quico's prior post and the discussion that followed) got me thinking abo...

Extremism is becoming the defining characteristic of the chavista movement. At no point does the ruling ideology draw the line - just the op...

Envelope please...[rustle-rustle, cough]...Ladies and Gentlemen, the 2006 Pendejo sin Fronteras d'Or goes to...Chris Kraul, of the Los A...

Click here to listen to the interview. This interview features Francisco Rodríguez. Francisco is Assistant Professor of Economics and Lati...

Personally, I've been careful not to say much about the Boyd-Livingston saga. My deep disagreements with Alek are just as public as our ...

An event rare enough to merit a post of its own: Yesterday, at about 1:00 p.m., a debate broke out in the comments section that was on topi...

After months of sitting on the fence, Zulia's neo-adeco governor Manuel Rosales has finally made it clear that he's running for pres...

In the wake of worldwide condemnation for North Korea's missile tests, Chávez's timing for a Pyongyang getaway is looking especial...

Say chavistoid populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador somehow gets the Mexican vote count overturned and wins the Mexican presidency...would t...

Katy says: "Just to cite some important examples, our country had the honour in 2005 of having been declared officially by UNESCO as an...

At 5:07, Ccs time, Calderón takes the lead... Click here for minute-by-minute updates from the Mexican El Universal.

Nothing to be done in Mexico but nibble at your nails... At 4:47 a.m. (Caracas time), with 97.6% of actas recorded, AMLO is ahead by 0.02%.....

In a Working Paper, presented at a recent conference on Venezuela's disastrous economic performance since the late 70s, Ricardo Haus...

Well, the election in Mexico is achingly close , and the legal challenges will surely mount. One thing we can say for sure, though: Andrés M...

This weekend's Geneva Mini-Ministerial conference failed yesterday over the same old, same old lingering deadlocks. You know things ...

Well, you must have noticed that I've moved more or less permanently to the Futbol Blog. I can't help it - ever since España '8...

Katy says: Catching up on the blog posts I may have missed due to an increased workload, I was surprised to see that Vcrisis , Alek Boyd...

The second instalment of my translation of Juan Carlos Zapata's dynamite piece in this week's Descifrado en la Calle : What is happ...

Juan Carlos Zapata has written an excellent but far too long article in this week's Descifrado en la Calle. I'll translate chunks o...

Katy says: This news item from Unión Radio continues the story from my previous post. Laura Toro, the Dean of FACES College where the shoo...

Katy says: This El Universal note sent shivers down my spine. While PSF chuggers comfortably spin about Venezuela from their First-World ivo...