Airport security, chavista style
Yesterday, Maria Corina Machado and at least one other legislator were attacked as they were about to board a flight at Ciudad Guayana airport. The video of the...
Suggesting change may be as relevant as change itself
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I take a less pessimistic approach to SICAD II than Quico. The value added: “The new system is also much more transparent. The...
Escalation
El Nacional’s front page today paints a dramatic picture of yesterday’s events, when three people were shot dead in Valencia, countless were injured, and a battle took place...
Damned if you do, damned if you burn tires
For the past few days, I’ve been pondering why Quico’s post blasting the guarimba protest movement (here, and in The New Republic) grated on me so much. I...
Damned if you do, damned if you burn tires
For the past few days, I’ve been pondering why Quico’s post blasting the guarimba protest movement (here, and in The New Republic) grated on me so much. I...
Why Venezuela matters to Brazil
(Note: A guest post by one of our resident Brazilian readers, André Oliveira. This is my loose, butchered translation from the original Portuguese – the first time I have...
Vene-Zello
One of the interesting things about the current street protests in Venezuela is how technology has become an integral part of the puzzle. We all know that Twitter...
Dilma Rou$$eff
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, she for whom everything is “an internal affair” unless it involves left-wing Latin presidents, is calling for an emergency meeting of UNASUR next week...
A legacy of destruction
We all know the late Hugo Chávez destroyed the Fourth Republic, Venezuela’s institutions, its oil industry, and pretty much everything in his path. As we ponder his actual...
Making repression backfire, but is it ethical?
Over at Foreign Policy, Srdja Popovic (of the Center for Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies, or CANVAS) and Mladen Joksic discuss how to turn repression into a strength,...
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