In one of those news events that is both deeply shocking and entirely expected, Diosdado Cabello has just set up a parallel, unelected National Assembly, to be known as the Parlamento Comunal Nacional.
AS-COA does it again. A panel discussion on the outcome of the December legislative elections in Venezuela, their implications, and future scenarios. Starts at 9:30 EST, 10:00 a.m. Hugoslavia Standard Time.
So how did all those pre-election forecasts pan out? We walk you through the good, the bad, the ugly, the cringeworthy, the catastrophic, the too-right-for-its-own-good, and the winner: Professor Francisco Monaldi.
The conventional wisdom is that 6D proves the moderates right and the #Salidistas wrong. That's a dangerously simplistic interpretation that could cripple a New Majority that will need the streets in the weeks ahead.
On 6D, the government lost because the economy collapsed. But the New Majority won because it empowered thousands of people nationwide to keep the vote clean and peaceful in the communities where they live.
Two weeks ago, what would you have thought were the odds that the first party to start talking openly about a referendum to recall Nicolás Maduro would be MS?
The Government vows to let the Lame Duck National Assembly appoint 12 judges to replace the Supreme Tribunal retirees. MUD's move? Remind them who the new sheriff in town is.
In the New York Times OpEd page this morning, our Raúl Stolk takes the time to remind us how chavismo has reacted to election losses in the past, and why that won't work this time.
The day after the opposition’s historic landslide in the elections of December 6th, 2015, Venezuela finds itself strangely calm. After the vote count was announced, the most astonishing...
Somehow, amid all the craziness last night, I found 10 minutes to talk to NPR. Great fun.
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