When Maduro starts talking about a Constitutional Convention, people notice. But was this an actual proposal? A mind game? A stray bit of a forgotten 21-year-old conversation we’re all over-interpreting? We dive into the facts.
The regime may have Communicational Hegemony. But we have Whatsapp.
Henrique Capriles Radonski has been barred from running for public office for the next fifteen years.
Bloomberg tracked down Michael Hudson, Maduro's new favourite economist. Turns out he's not quite as enamoured of Maduro as Maduro is of him.
Counseling the families of those who die violently was never going to be easy. When the perpetrators are the people meant to protect us, it’s that much worse.
In Tropico 4, I discovered that life in a ridiculously over the top Eastern European game designer's delirium of a dysfunctional Banana Republic is...pretty much indistinguishable from what goes on outside my window.
Marianne's apartment has that fresh emptiness and forlorn sense of detachment common to the homes of Venezuelans getting ready to move out, even with no boxes around.
A walk down petro-populism memory lane, through the eyes of a Kennedy-loving gringo.
Government funded flicks haven't escaped the whips and scorns of the debacle. Happy cinema Day!
Our man in Maracay describes life under Governor Tareck El Aissami, who's just been named Nicolás Maduro's Vice-president, and could well be his successor.
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