Yesterday, the Supreme Tribunal, for all intents and purposes. shut down Venezuela's National Assembly. Speaking on Cesar Miguel Rondón's radio show this morning, AD's Henry Ramos Allup gave the most cogent explanation yet of what happened.
Watch the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and the American Enterprise Institute sponsored panel discussion featuring Luis Almagro, Eric Farnsworth, Patrick Duddy, Hannah Dreier, Roger Noriega and Antonio Mora.
People around Venezuela erupted in anger when they realized the 100 bolivar bills left in their pockets were worthless. Protests and episodes of looting have erupted around the country.
Our resident artist, AdryTatoo, led the Caracas Chronicles Team through an exercise of channeling our frustrations into collage, while we get back to covering the crisis. The results are as fascinating as they are perturbing. Behold.
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