October 13, 2006

Thinking through a Rosales presidency

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Lost in all the campaign horse-race excitement is a simple question: if he did manage to beat Chavez, what would a Manuel Rosales presidency...
October 12, 2006

Here a coup, there a coup, everywhere a coup coup...

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Introductions are in order. Over the next few weeks, international wo/man of mystery JayDee will be posting occassionally on Caracas Chronic...
October 11, 2006

The Sacred Right to Vote

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Katy says: The following post was written by a few loyal readers. It talks about how to vote, and what to do to defend our votes. In the sp...

Making a believer out of me...

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Here's the TV version of Hugo's Love Offensive. This one, I think, is much worse than the print version. The forced smile. The awkwa...

Plain old bonkers...

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This ad is so, so far off the deep end, when someone described it in the comments section I thought it had to be a hoax. In fact, it is a ha...
October 10, 2006

Venezuelans who get it

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Katy says: The following is a translation of an interview with Jean Paul Rivas, the President of CruzSalud . It was originally published in...

Keller details...

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A little bird sent me a PDF summarizing Keller's 3rd quarter 2006 poll, and I thought I'd share a couple of key slides. This is that...
October 9, 2006

Policing the comments section

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Katy says: I have begun regulating the comments section. There are no fixed guidelines, and I won't catch all offenders, but here are th...

Open thread on "the avalanche"

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Katy says: Manuel Rosales held a big rally in Caracas over the weekend, called "The Avalanche." I could not follow it since weeken...
October 7, 2006

Where's the muckraking spirit?

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Reading over Katy's latest post, I'm struck with a mixture of exasperation and despair over the state of Venezuelan journalism. Bec...
October 6, 2006

"Que se me quemen las manos ... "

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Katy says: This news item made me chuckle. In it, they quote Chávez saying that when he leaves Miraflores he'll be "as poor as wh...

The picture of the week

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Katy says: Alek Boyd deserves some sort of award for this spontaneous shot of Manuel Rosales on the campaign trail. Have a good weekend ev...
October 5, 2006

Bolivian court blocks Morales

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Katy says: I don't typically comment on stuff from other countries, but this news item about Bolivia is tangentially related to Venezuel...

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Final de la Marcha - Discurso de Manuel Rosales
October 3, 2006

Cocoplums and the State

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Katy says: A trip to Venezuela is a homecoming. Something about waking up and seeing dilapidated American cars from the 70s and 80s roaming...
October 2, 2006

Your tax bolívars at work

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Katy says: I'm back from my trip and I've updated the other blog with my own pictures of the use of government funds in the campaig...

Selling Mi Negra

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You can think whatever you like about Mi Negra, but electorally what's relevant is not so much the proposal itself but how it's comm...
September 30, 2006

Jagshemash, dear legislators...

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This one's crazy enough you could pass it off for a Borat skit, "In US and A, first you go to university and then you become congr...
September 29, 2006

Baffling Chavista Imbecility du Jour

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El Universal sez: The Venezuelan Central Bank, the National Institute of Statistics and various executive branch agencies are developing ...

The Antidote to Petropopulism

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Here's a question I've been mulling: is Mi Negra, Manuel Rosales' plan to hand out a portion of Venezuela's oil rents direct...
September 28, 2006

Chavez and his seven friends

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Katy says : This has been a hectic week for me here in Caracas, and I will be sharing my impressions with you next week. But this little new...

"Though President Chavez maintains in excess of 50 percent support, only 16 percent of Venezuelans agree with his confrontational style with the US"

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In this excellent introduction to the politics of Chavez's US-bashing, Vinod Sreeharsha skillfully brings gringo readers up to date... ...
September 27, 2006

Chavismo as Slapstick

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In this New Republic piece, Sacha Feinman has a look at the zanier side of boliparanoia. Great reportage. Great fun. LA GUAIRA DIARIST ...
September 26, 2006

Focus, damn it, focus!

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Sorry to carp, but seeing this story about Rosales's campaign on Globovision's website made me despair all over again. The Globo jo...
September 25, 2006

Bush and what army?

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This NYTimes piece on the sorry state of the US Army's Third Infantry Division is as good a place to start as any if you're trying ...
September 24, 2006

Role reversal

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Electioneering in the television age is really a matter of fixing a series of symbolic associations in voters' minds. Candidates do this...
September 22, 2006

Mi Negra è mobile

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Katy says: One of the main quibbles I have with the “Mi Negra” scheme that Manuel Rosales is proposing (see Quico’s interesting posts on the...
September 21, 2006

Selling guns to FARC? Moi?

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A blast from the past: Vladimiro Montesinos, the one-time power-behind-the-Fujimori-throne in Perú, has been convicted to 20 years in jail ...

Would you hand over power to Satan?

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Five years ago, when I started writing about Chávez's strategy to "demonize" his political enemies, I never imagined the guy ...

¿Quién es más golpista?

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Recently, we've found that chavistas are shocked, shocked that somebody who has actually participated in a coup attempt might think he...
September 20, 2006

10 million votes ... $600 million

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Katy says: I thought this article from the Jamestown Foundation's Eurasia Group on the arms deals between Chávez and Russia was interest...

Hinterlaces: Chávez 48% - Rosales 30%

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Hinterlaces, the polling firm run by Caracas political oracle Oscar Schemel, has just released its beginning of September poll, showing Chá...
September 19, 2006

Can Mi Negra lead to sustained economic growth?

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Yesterday, I dealt with some of the Social Policy questions raised by Rosales' proposal to hand out a debit card to millions of poor fam...