Baseball's Coming Home
Venezuelan baseball is promising to bring all the sports-related joys that football has deprived us from. We'll see..
We Have to Talk About Pekergate
After a decision that had many folks wondering if the time of the Vinotinto had finale come, the FVF goes back to its old ways. Manager José Pekerman has left the building
Our New Gold Standard
A Queen, A 36-year-old BMX rider, a weight lifter from the Cota 905, and a self-taught phys ed teacher from rural town Barlovento are just some of the characters leading an unlikely historic generation of Venezuelan athletes
It Ain’t Gonna Be Pretty
We Venezuelans need to have the right expectations about what will happen in the following weeks. One particular issue, amnesty, is a whole source of dissent, disappointment and conflict.
Crisis Consumes Venezuelans – and Nobody Else
We shouldn’t count on a foreign solution because most of the world doesn’t know what’s happening, those who know don’t really care and those who care – Venezuelan immigrants – can’t do anything.
Losing Official Party Status, Voluntad Popular Staggers Toward Irrelevance
Diosdado Cabello’s multi-year crusade to render Voluntad Popular into a forgotten footnote in Venezuelan history looks maddeningly close to success.
MUD: (don’t) Stay Together for The Kids
The defeat in this regional election deepens a rift inside the MUD, which remains “unida” just in name. And, for the sake of the country, a divorce is in order.
The Inevitable Hector Rodríguez
We’re calling it first: Hector Rodríguez will one day be president of this patria grande. Don’t believe it? Look at these facts and despair.
Why the dictatorship wants David Smolansky in jail
As El Hatillo mayor David Smolansky goes underground, I think back on the amazing, inspiring 2013 campaign that made him mayor. It’s no wonder the government’s scared of him.
How do you solve a problem like Cabello and El Aissami?
Getting rid of Maduro? That’s the easy part. The real question is what you do with the hyper-criminal faction leaders just beneath him in the chavista org chart.
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