On the Verge
A night of mayhem. Riots, protests and burning barricades deep in government strongholds. And that video. That VIDEO!
The Story of the Last Week, in a Single Tweet
It isn't that the State Security forces are moving in with tear gas to disperse rowdy, even violent protests. It's that they're tear gassing people protesting in total calm, causing a confrontation that wouldn't take place otherwise.
Too. Much. Tear Gas. (Some of it Red.)
Protests in Caracas were met with a shocking, shocking amount of tear gas today. Some of it red.
"A Week is a Long Time in Politics"
A Rip Van Winkle waking up from a week-long sleep today would hardly recognize the political moment Venezuela is now living.
Aristóbulo, a Time Machine, and Decision 156
This week’s bizarre constitutional crisis has been many things. Here’s one we tend to overlook: it’s been a stomach-churning desecration of the resource nationalism that once defined the Venezuelan left.
The First Significant Split in the Regime Following the Autogolpe
This is a video of regime stalwart Luisa Ortega Diaz, Venezuela's Prosecutor General. Denouncing a breakdown in the constitutional order. To sustained applause. On State Television!
My own words. With ketchup.
TFW you confidently tell someone "we'll see how this holds up in six months!" And then six months pass. And they were totally right.
Good and Bad Reasons to Hate Francisco Rodríguez
No Venezuelan economist comes close to stirring the passions FRod does. We work through the reasons why, teasing out the silly from the serious, and the merely serious from the absolutely unacceptable.
The Fake Banesco Bank Branch in Tocuyito Prison Allegedly Really a Pizzeria
It's come to this: the big controversy racking the Venezuelan public sphere is whether the fake Banesco branch inside Tocuyito really was or wasn't a fast food joint.
What We Will Find Out When We Bust Open SEBIN's Archives
MUD has virtually stopped existing. We won't really understand the reasons why until we get a look at SEBIN's archives and learn the true extent of the government's Influence Operation against the opposition.
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