Guatafoc is as Guatafoc does
Guatafoc's photo-essay ABCs, #TropicalMierda, is one of the most gloriously weird, disgustingly Caracas things you'll see all week.
The Truly Unexpected
Aristóbulo Istúriz knows exactly what the government needs to do to end shortages and queues. The real shocker? He's right. But will Padrino López listen?
Padrino's Move
The Defense Minister, Vladimir Padrino López, has just been appointed to a crazy new post that's nowhere in the Constitution, something clearly outranking the VP, and only nebulously less powerful than the president.
OVV, You Had One Job
We dive deep into the Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia's bizarre, muddled answer to Dorothy Kronick’s criticisms and come to a troubling epiphany: OVV isn’t really an academic research organization at all.
OVV Understands it Blundered: Time to Retract Publicly
The Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia's deeply flawed estimate of violent deaths in Venezuela is damaging our public sphere. Time to retract and correct.
The fallen kingpin: Roberto Rincon's story
Roberto Rincón was the Steve Jobs of PDVSA contract-rigging. He now sits in a U.S. prison cell, trying to reduce his sentence from over 100 years to 13.
#LiveBlog: Cartademocráticageddon
Follow OAS's historic session on whether to apply the Democratic Charter to Venezuela live, right here.
Sowing the Dirigisme
Since people didn’t quite get it the first time around, let me be even more blunt: you can believe in ‘sembrar el petróleo’ or you can believe in capitalism. Not both.
If you're hungry and you know it CLAP your hands
Can the ruling clique really be deluded enough to think CLAPs are sustainable even in the medium term? Or is the regime now not just openly destructive but, even worse, openly self-destructive?
Almagro's Long Game
At first, pushing the Democratic Charter without having the votes first seemed like a rookie mistake. Now it looks almost visionary. Could this have been Almagro's plan all along?
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