The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry's response to the latest imperialist threat has been mediocre and uninspired. Worry not, Americans, thanks to the MUD, there's still hope that some will take your plans to invade seriously.
A new Ministry of Defense resolution authorizes the use of “potentially lethal force to avoid public disorder." So basically, the military can now shoot protesters in Venezuela. Like they needed a law to do this in the first place...
Much in the same way that the Venezuelan regime has mastered the art of rationing basic staples just enough as to elicit a tolerable resignation from its people, so has it mastered the art of rationing political persecution to remain just shy of becoming a dictatorship in the eyes of the international community.
This U.S. Senator just blocked the targeted sanctions on Venezuelan human rights violators because she loves CITGO money too much.
The opposition MUD National Assembly caucus brokered a smart political operation that may prevent chavismo, for the first time since who-knows-when, from just railroading die-hard partisans into the CNE board unopposed. So, just for today, I'm being nice to MUD.
Still haven't caught the fútbol bug? Here is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's answer to all those schnazzy capitalist World Cup promos, courtesy of the genius and overfunded producers over at Televisión Venezolana Social (TVes), who, by the way, are celebrating today seven years since RCTV went off the air.
Today, MUD suspended dialogue talks because they want concrete results instead of promises in order for conversations to continue. By having sat down for talks in the first place, they legitimized this giant farce and just bought the dictatorship lots more time.
Today, Leopoldo López is celebrating - if that's the right word - his 43rd birthday from solitary confinement in Ramo Verde military prison, which he has called home for 70 days now as he awaits trial for charges of arson and criminal instigation.
I recently made the hike to Ramo Verde military prison in a futile exercise to get a delegation of foreign officials to verify the human rights conditions of political prisoners jailed inside. We didn't get in, but we got to meet some sheep and a great recommendation for good steak in Los Teques.
Spoiler alert: The outcome of today's talks will be precisely the outcome the government will allow the opposition to have: that they shut up, give thanks, and go back to their daily business of not mattering.
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