Not a victory
The first "results" have fallen but I did not follow. It was nice to spend an evening without worrying about elections results, for a change. Instead we did the Christmas tree at home, with a live...
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No results, just data
The opposition held this week its parallel election called "consulta popular". Whatever its result their weigh will be limited because the regime has embarked in a new course which includes not only...
View ArticleNo negotiation, never
So Maduro/regime/Cuba have everything: total control of the executive, legislative and judiciary; decisive support of the army; they count the votes; no private sector able to finance an opposition;...
View ArticleThe 2020 Xmas post
It is late, like everything in this year.But I hope that in spite of all those reading this will have the best possible Xmas they could have.Here in exile a Tweet posted a few weeks ago will have to...
View ArticleDefeated, and so far away from Ithaka
These last few months have been hard on the soul. You may have noticed if you were a regular reader: writing was scarce. Perhaps it was my subconscious dealing with the reality of exile. I had...
View ArticleA new year
Wishing readers the best possible year 2021. It is going tough this time around. And if you are in Venezuela just making it through the year will be quite the achievement. Not that it will be much...
View ArticleNo way ahead
On January 5 the opposition loses its last legal toe. The constitutional mandate of 5 years for the National Assembly elected in 2015 expires and as of that day all the opposition representatives will...
View ArticleThe NO posts
I was planning to write more negative entries to detail the consequences of the dreadful process that culminated on the December 6 vote. But it would require a few more and I want to move on some more...
View ArticleSame old, same old for chavismo?
So, chavo/madurismo has all in its hands (1). No Venezuelan government in history had so many levers of power in its hands. All the formal state institutions are now controlled by the regime except a...
View ArticleBiden's administration will have to face Maduro's regime
As I type Biden is about to be sworn in and of course I am planning to watch it if French TV broadcasts it. One of the reasons that motivates me is that in the first hearings for his cabinet positions...
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Carvativir as the symbol of Covid Maduro's failure
It is now common knowledge that Venezuela's dealings with Covid19 have been a failure. The best that can be said is that the regime has bet secretly on herd immunity because, well, there is nothing...
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Chavismo reshifting roles
Now that we have a novel National Assembly, who is speaking for chavismo? (1)One "surprise" is that Jorge Rodriguez is the new chair of the nNA. Well, not that much of a surprise since he was sent to...
View ArticleThe end of the Venezuelan opposition, as we knew it
It is time to write that dreaded post, the funeral eulogy of the Venezuelan opposition as we knew it. Something else will come someday for sure but at this point in my life I wonder whether I should...
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The economy: road block to transition
Time is running out before Venezuela becomes a failed state. It is true that a failed/war-destroyed state can be rebuilt, but it takes a long time, it takes a powerful political center, it takes...
View ArticleThe sysiphean Venezuelan opposition
Now that we covered in last post the real problem in Venezuela, the economy, and that we have examined the situation of the opposition since December 2020, we can finally look at what can the...
View ArticleEpic lies, epic Covid in Venezuela
As weeks go by the situation in Venezuela gets worse. Reports that reach me are frightening.A couple of weeks ago I wrote a long tweet thread in Spanish and with new updates I think it is a time to...
View ArticleA kleptocracy starts facing reality?
In the past few weeks a few strange signs have been happening for a regime that supposedly has all controls in hands. A regime that has made a point to sabotage any negotiation, to deny the existence...
View ArticleNo need to hold your breath on oppo/regime negotiations
A few days ago I was writing about the regime apparent willingness to consider that maybe, it was an hypothetical hypothesis that well, you know, we may talk to someone in Guaido's office to see if we...
View ArticleThere was an election a week ago
After years of covering in detail Venezuelan elections I would be remiss not to mention last Sunday regional "elections" in Venezuela. Then again, as I put in a tweet, the same day Chilean elections...
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Alive and sort of well
Since some people seem not to have forgotten me I am writing this short entry to catch up with me, not Venezuela. That one is hopeless and I cannot find courage to write about it, except for a few...
View ArticleVenezuela se arreglo. Not.
"Venezuela se arreglo", Venezuela is fixed up.This is what the regime would like us to believe, but not they alone. There are also a few people that are tired to be opposition. There are also a few...
View ArticleWhy Venezuela cannot be fixed
I was planning this second post long ago, following my crude description of why Venezuela remains messed up in spite of all the regime propaganda. But on occasion procrastination pays and I can start...
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Maduro charmed at Sharm El-Sheikh
The big discussion today at least for those interested in Venezuela is the handshake and hallway chit chat that Maduro had with France's Macron yesterday at the COP 27 being held in Egypt. Besides the...
View ArticleA force fed agreement in Mexico
The Venezuelan opposition delegates met the chavista's ones in Mexico, in a supposed restart of negotiations interrupted months ago. A curious thing was that they went all the way to Mexico city to...
View ArticleHomo chavistus
Con la guerra en Ucrania por encima del descalabro absoluto del país me pregunté cómo era posible todavía ser chavista. Sí, es una pregunta que uno se hace a veces, pero después de varios años fuera de...
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