The Signatures to request the launch of a recall procedure are in CNE's hands. It's a funny sort of democracy where you have to stalk around a warehouse in the dead of night to exercise a basic constitutional right, wouldn't you say?
We found the secret resolution CNE used to argue we need 1% of the voters in each state to launch a recall. It just doesn't say that. And that's not the only regulatory detail they made up.
Amid an outright economic catastrophe, Nicolás Maduro has managed to retain popularity ratings many other South American presidents would kill for.
Nobody - not in the government, not in the opposition - expected the avalanche of people we've seen yesterday and today signing to request Maduro's recall.
Your drunk uncle who keeps saying shit's only going to get real when the beer runs out is about to have his theory put to the test.
Luis Pedro España is starting to think that the kinds of economic problems we're facing don't get solved through talk; they get solved through pain.
The number one challenge facing foreign correspondents in Venezuela today is how to keep telling the story of decline without it all getting horribly stale and repetitive.
As I watched yesterday's drama in Brasilia, I kept thinking of Jesús Urdaneta - Chávez's first head of intelligence - who saw this whole thing coming years before Lula was even elected.
Dilma is being impeached over Brazil's version of our "bochinche parafiscal". Venezuelans, of all people, are on incredibly thin ice dismissing this stuff as a harmless technicality.
This petrostate's currency peg is so crazy, there are guys at the airport who'll buy your dollars at TWICE the official rate! ¡Que horror!
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