In a Show of Unity, MUD Doubles Down on a 2016 Recall
With a tarima that ran the spectrum, from Henri Falcón on the left to María Corina Machado on the right, MUD announces a protest agenda for the 2016 recall.
When you need two and a half years and $3.2 billion to recover the capacity you've lost in six months
After wasting precious trying to get a Colombian trucking company to drill oil wells, PDVSA signs a minimally credible deal to stanch the production hemorrhage.
Why We Need to Insist on a Recall That Will Never Happen
Attacking MUD for insisting on an unrealistic 2016 recall is like attacking Rosa Parks for unrealistically insisting on sitting in the front of the bus: a spectacular bit of point-missing.
A Playbook for MUD
MUD needs to participate in the 20% signature drive, but on its terms: creating parallel mechanisms for disenfranchised people to formally register their disenfranchisement, and setting the stage for a campaign of civil disobedience.
The Day Jorge Rodríguez Overreached
As the government's chief tactician and the power behind the CNE throne, Jorge Rodríguez's job is to keep the opposition divided. But last night's decision, which kills the Recall Referendum cold, will do just the opposite.
The Real Legado: A Global Byword for Failure
From Chigüire Bipolar premise to real news story in two years: the press in Nigeria starts to fret about looming Venezuelanization.
The Government's Basic Problem in One Simple Video
We talk about the limits of a repressive strategy in sustaining a government with no authority, and it all sounds kind of vague. But really, it isn't hard. It's simple. Crushingly Simple.
¿Con qué se come el Inflation Tax?
Economists have this maddening habit of talking about the "inflation tax" without caring that nobody has any idea what they're talking about. Here, we'll make it simple.
Floral Update
The narconephews explicitly trafficked (heh) on their family connections to gain street cred with the DEA agents they thought they were selling to.
Seriously, isn't Timoteo Zambrano going to resign?
On the diplomatic blunder scale, Timoteo Zambrano scored a Full Duterte yesterday. It makes no sense for him to keep his job as MUD's main International spokesperson after that.
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