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,...
Dangerous games
“The Venezuelan geographical space is an area of peace. No foreign power or coalition may establish foreign military bases nor any other kind of military-purpose installations.” That is...
The quotable revolution
(A guest post by friend-of-the-blog Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez) It’s amazing how little of the truly delicious ridiculousness spouted by the regime’s members gets noticed abroad, isn’t it? Since the...
Sanity from the Prosecutor General
In a rare bout of justice, Venezuela’s Prosecutor General has charged five government intelligence agents with the murder of two people on February 12th. The two people in...
Twenty-five years of hatred
Desde la puerta de ‘La Crónica’ Santiago mira la avenida Tacna, sin amor: automóviles, edificios desiguales y descoloridos, esqueletos de avisos luminosos flotando en la neblina, el mediodía...
The Cadivi Barricades
Quico Toro, the founder of this blog, wrote an OpEd for yesterday’s New York Times in which he ponders the reasons for the massive protests currently rocking Venezuela....
Ban re-election
As we enter the end of the commodities super-cycle, Latin America seems set to return to its regular trend – low growth mixed in with high social conflict....
The challenge of Venezuela's urban poverty
One of the things few of our politicians talk about is how to transform our slums into engines of growth. Sure, we talk about the barrios a lot...
The big black hole "al norte del Sur"
One of the things I’ve been doing this summer vacation is catching up on my academic reading. In doing so, I came across a paper by Santiago Levy...
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