An Apology to Héctor Agüero
Héctor Agüero, the senior member of the National Assembly, deserves more respect than we accorded him yesterday.
ANmageddon #5E: Venezuela's New National Assembly takes office
After a tense but largely peaceful day outside the Palacio Legislativo and a testy, historic opening session marked by a very drunk speech and a chavista walk-out, Venezuela has a new, opposition-led National Assembly.
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Habemus Henry: Ramos Allup elected to lead National Assembly in 2016
Henry Ramos Allup, the controversial 73 year-old AD Secretary General, has just been selected by MUD deputies to preside the National Assembly in 2016. Here's my hot take.
Politics, finally
Why I welcome the incoming MUD majority's decision to choose the new A.N. president by secret ballot, and you should too.
A Note on Supreme Tribunal Reform
What if the new majority went back to the 2004 reform of the Supreme Tribunal Law to make one single change?
2016 is here!
Countdown to #5E at -5. Que papá Dios nos agarre confesados.
Nos Expropiaron Hasta el 31 de Diciembre
Today ought to be a day for posting about 12 grapes and midnight luggage-toting strolls, not Christian friggin' Zerpa. If I had any choice in the matter, that's what I'd be writing about. But I don't, so I won't.
One. Oh. Nine. [Updated]
The Supreme Tribunal has just approved a temporary measure suspending the election of four assembly members: three from MUD, one from PSUV. Effective immediately.
Ramos Allunderwood
To the astonished horror of many, Henry Ramos Allup looks poised to beat Julio Borges and become National Assembly president. Here's how he did it.
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