Sean Spicer and the José Vicente Rangel Playbook
If you're Venezuelan and old enough to remember the crisis of 2002, U.S. news were a PTSD-inducing horror these last few days.
I Don't Care if El Sistema Doesn't Fight Poverty
A randomized controlled trial has just determined with minute mathematical precision that economists have no friggin' clue why art matters.
Dept. of Overly Literal Metaphors: Venezuela's Academies Ransacked by Thugs
Bájale dos, metaphor.
Nicolás Maduro's Obscene Constitutional Pantomime
The constitution mandates one thing, the president does another. It's happened so often, the real challenge is to stay mad. To keep reminding ourselves that, damn it, this is not ok.
Odebrecht Owns It, Venezuela Ignores It
The nice thing about writing this one for WaPo is that, for once, I was able to break free from the tyranny of “allegedly.” Journos will know what I...
Morphing into a Police State, Venezuela Arrests Opposition Legislator
This will be remembered as the week Venezuela shed the last vestiges of its institutional structures and devolved into a straight-up police state.
The Zucaritas Principle [Updated]
Nicolás Maduro just announced imports fell to a shocking $17.8 billion last year, down 73% in four years.
Venezuela's Opposition Appears Badly Divided on National Assembly Floor
Julio Borges's stint as head of the National Assembly is off to a bad start, as successive votes in the Assembly yesterday left the facture at the heart of the opposition in plain sight.
Utterly Pointless
Look, I realize there are few worse uses of your time than arguing about "socialism". But sometimes, you just can't help yourself.
Borgestopia: LiveBlog
Primero Justicia's Julio Borges steps up to the National Assembly's Chairmanship...and we're liveblogging it.
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