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 a...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2023/02/homo-chavistus-chavismo-product.html
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 ...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2022/11/venezuela-negotiates-agreement-mexico-chevron.html
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. Bes...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2022/11/maduro-macron-cop.html
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...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-venezuela-cannot-be-fixed.html
"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 als...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2022/07/venezuela-se-arreglo-not.html
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 fe...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2022/05/alive-and-sort-of-well.html
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 elec...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/11/there-was-election-week-ago.html
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 se...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/05/maduro-guaido-negotiation.html
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 exist...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-kleptocracy-starts-facing-reality.html
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 ti...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/04/epic-lies-epic-covid-in-venezuela.html
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 V...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-sysiphean-venezuelan-opposition.html
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 ...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/02/economy-blocks-transition-venezuela.html
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 sho...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/02/venezuela-opposition-downfall.html
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 wa...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/01/chavismo-reshifting-roles.html
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 nothi...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/01/carvativir-as-symbol-of-covid-maduros.html
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 po...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/01/bidens-administration-will-have-to-face.html
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 ex...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/01/same-old-chavismo.html
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...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-no-posts.html
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 representativ...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/01/venezuela-solution-2021.html
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 m...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-new-year.html
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 ha...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2020/12/defeated-and-so-far-away-from-ithaka.html
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 w...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-2020-xmas-post.html
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 opposi...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2020/12/no-negotiation-never.html
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...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2020/12/no-results-just-data.html
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 l...
https://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2020/12/not-victory.html