What's the 45,475th stripe to a tiger?
Rather than the voters, it will be a tribunal that has never ruled against the government that will decide who sits in the National Assembly. It's a dangerous move.
Nothing Innocent About It: The Impugnaciones are Back
The newly re-packed, 100% chavista Supreme Tribunal's Electoral Chamber has just received six separate impugnaciones (legal challenges) against deputies elected by MUD on December 6th.
Neoliberalism in Unlikely Places
The list of Petrostates that respond to mounting deficits by cutting fuel subsidies just grew by one. One big one.
28/12: TSJ Preoverturns All Incoming National Assembly Acts as Unconstitutional
Landmark ruling of the Constitution's Article 3 threatens to destabilize the country still further ahead of a delicate parliamentary handover on January 5th.
The Last Oil Boom?
If you're going to read just one thing this week, forget the intramural MUD histrionics and read Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's takedown of OPEC's World Oil Outlook.
Hallacanálisis 2015: By the Numbers
The results are in. As of 11:30 a.m. on Christmas day, 452 of you participated in our Hallaca Survey. And the winner is...Miss Colombia!
Crowdsourcing the Perfect Hallaca
Fill out our survey and let us know which ingredients you can't stand in an hallaca, and which ones you can't do without.
Roberto Rincón trades his little Woodlands house for a jail cell
Roberto Rincón, the enchufado of Tradequip and Ovarb Industrial fame, is spending tonight in a Houston-area federal jail cell awaiting arrainment on money laundering charges.
No Longer Coke-FedEx, Now More Like Coke-Amazon
There’s plenty to chew over in news of the looming U.S. indictment of Néstor Reverol, the National Guard commander and alleged coke-trafficking aficionado. The latest story, in The New...
Smartmatic's Null Vote Shame
How Smartmatic is trying to turn an election where its crap user interface disenfranchised more than 686,000 people into a PR win.
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