The New Republic has a good piece by Alvaro Vargas Llosa on the recent PR battle between Chavez and the friends of CEDICE during that think tank’s recent 25th anniversary celebrations in Caracas.
The Cedice event and the government’s response helped to convey a simple truth about Chavez–that the emperor has no clothes. Venezuelans had been told that we were imperialists bent on destroying the revolution. But Chavez needs no such help; he is doing a fine job of it himself.