A Backchannel is Betrayed
Why would you make a secret back channel public? Because you are strong? Just the opposite: you lash out when you realize you're too weak to impose impossible demands.
The Only Thing We've Learned is Helplessness
The thing that's keeping chavismo in power isn't CNE, or the Supreme Tribunal, or even the army. It's the opposition's deep conviction that we're powerless against them.
World's Least Memorable Self-Coup
How far down the rabbit hole is Venezuela? So far down that one branch of government just basically shut down another branch, and we basically yawned it off.
What the Glorious Army of El Libertador is up to these days
Henceforth, these 18 officers will be in charge of these 18 products. Do not adjust your sets, this is not a parody. (OK...the video is.)
#1S as Performance and Prelude
A protest is a communicative act. So what did 1S communicate, and to whom?
For Whom the Bailoterapia Tolls
Ironically, the defining tweet of the "Toma de Caracas" came not from the big opposition demonstration but from the squalid little chavista counterdemo.
No Violence Reported at Anti-Government Protest in Caracas
As of 10:40, Caracas remains remarkably free of violence as anti-government protesters congregate at seven points and start marching towards the East Side. That, in itself, is big news.
Bridgegate Redux: the Government shuts down access to Caracas
Without even a pretense of a reason other than to preven people protesting, chavismo is effectively shutting down all the main routes into Caracas. El que es un bebé de pecho no es Erdoğan, sino Chris Christie.
A New Generation of Heroes
It's easy to lose sight of it in the heat of the moment, and given the pervasive cynicism of the zeitgeist. But the fight against this military dictatorship is just as suffused with heroism as the last.
How to Become a Pariah State
As the government escalates repression ahead of September 1st's protests, the hemispheric consensus that Maduro has gone too far is hardening.
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