“Alone and bound. Bound because everything depended on him. He felt almost physically the ties that connected him to all forms of life in the vast country… Wherever he moved, the center of the web…
It’s certainly amusing to watch the president commander and his supporters twist and turn their arguments to explain their recent electoral defeat in the parliamentary elections. The leader is so disconnected from reality that he…
Dear Socorro, With curiosity, we read your statements from today, in which you claim, with the precision of a Swiss watch, that the electoral constituencies were designed by a “method” based on “the law.” What…
The electoral day has concluded, and the CNE, using the so-called “best electoral system in the world,” according to Eva Golinger, took 8 hours to announce partial results. In these results, although the opposition secured…
This afternoon, I received a call from Martin Vennard, who asked if I could comment on the legislative elections in Venezuela for BBC World Service, to which I agreed. We initially discussed the overall situation…
Well, smart money has lost the indefinite bet. The election of a conservative government, after 13 years of Labour rule, infuriated the radicals: Ed Miliband has just been chosen as the new leader of the…
Ricardo Fernández Barrueco breaks his silence after 10 months of imprisonment. He claims he was demonized and attributes his situation to a power struggle within the Government. “I believed in their national project where the…
My wife, who keeps an eye on the political events in our country from a healthy distance, recently asked me: “What happens if the opposition wins the assembly elections?” Her question caught me off guard…
My Weekly Commentary In light of the upcoming parliamentary elections, we can confidently say that the readers of Las Verdades de Miguel are eagerly awaiting our predictions. I emphasize this without any hint of arrogance;…
I’m currently reading an undefined book about a supposed infiltration of the transnational terrorism world by a Spanish undercover journalist named Antonio Salas. While I’m not prepared to take everything Salas wrote at face value,…
– What the heck!– I know.– What the hell are these guys thinking? Do you really think talking about inorganic money is a good way to convince people to vote for the candidate?– Hey, Michael…
In Venezuela, it has been a long time since elections have been free and fair. In this latest episode, Hugo Chávez threatens the electoral chief Vicente Díaz -the only member of a five-person board who…
The Guardian’s Comment is Free has published an article by the blogger Francisco Toro. One can get a sense of the prevailing mindset of those commenting on it, with remarks like, “I’m surprised that The…
Thanks to the kind person who sent me the official crime report, created by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) of Venezuela, I can see that the author who wrote about it in El Nacional…
Thanks to Juan, I discovered an amazing video by the Venezuelan singer Juan David Chacón, known in the music world as Onechot undefined. There’s really not much to add about his incredibly powerful video, aptly…