Many in the opposition are sure the government will rig legislative elections on December 6th to hang on to power. The last time such a stunt was tried, the authoritarian regime collapsed within six weeks. Could December 2015 be the December 1957 of the 21st Century?

Daring new elongated rectangular fried potato stick design considered radical departure for burger chain best known for fried cassava snacks.

The only Rafael Cadenas text most people have read is an execrable little screed misattributed to him. The real Cadenas is just so much better.

Since my last post, the election campaign has officially begun. In the last few days, attention has turned to a figure that has quickly...

Sudeban takes one giant step forward to the creation of the Cyber-Surveillance state by ensuring it gets its hands on every single bank transfer anyone makes in Venezuela.

Violent burglaries have become so common in Venezuela, it's not easy to tell if a given attack is politically motivated or not. Just ask Marino.

William Ojeda sized up his chances of getting elected on a red ticket in Petare and made the logical - if morally bankrupt - choice.

In his weekly Sobremesa, Juan asks if the opposition has really faced up to its oligarch problem.

Drug traffickers have just as hard a time finding spare parts for their cars as you do. Which is a good thing, as far as Colombian police is concerned.

Halloween is here, and transculturated pitiyanqui reader of an Imperialist-language blog that you are, we bet you're chomping at the bit to go out and have some patria-selling fun. Here's how!

You'd think Franklin Nieves would've put together a little file with some irrefutable evidence of his allegations before he bolted. No such luck.

Remember the big show the government put on to bring home the nation's gold reserves? Yup, they've started selling those now.

The opposition has spent years demonizing the Chinese-Venezuelan Fund. Time to take a sober look at a much misunderstood financing mechanism.

Tired of waiting for Marco Torres to fill us in on how much money Venezuela will spend next year, Anabella Abadi went ahead and got us the scoop.

The ads MUD and PSUV are releasing ahead of December 6th tell the story of a campaign where the opposition playing to win and the government just wants to limit the damage.

In his memory, we reprint the profile of him published in The New York Times on September 2nd, 1975.

Proving once more that the U.N. is immune to irony (and ridicule), Venezuela has again been tapped to pass judgment on other countries' human rights records.

By hijacking the university's admissions system, the Sistema Nacional de Ingreso sabotages the Universidad Simón Bolívar's longstanding mission of becoming an engine for social mobility.

Turns out when you give away a product basically for free, you run out of money to make more of it.

In the current opinion climate, PSUV faces an electoral defeat of historic, system-shaking proportions. If anything, our model could be understating the scale of PSUV's defeat.

Because everyone should be allowed to fiddle around with results, not just Tibisay.