From Able but Unwilling, to Willing but Unable
No U.S. president has ever devoted as much of a U.N.G.A. speech to Venezuela as Donald Trump just did. But does he have the chops to lead the international response to Maduro?
Why You Should Vote in Today's Opposition Primary
Voting isn't an act of protest, it's an act of tactical retreat. Tactical retreat is never fun. It's dispiriting, intolerable, bitter...and essential. Because the alternative is the end of organized opposition to the regime: the true Cuban scenario.
"When I stretched my arms, I could touch two opposite walls."
Yon Goicoechea pens a New York Times Op-Ed from the dark confines of his jail cell. The three minutes that you spend reading it are three minutes of freedom that you gift a political prisoner.
"At any moment there could be arrests of journalists. The fear has become real."
For five years, Gustavo Hernández Acevedo has been minutely tracking each new attack on Venezuela's free press. Yesterday, for Deutsche Welle, he stood back to survey the wreckage.
“Never in my life had I spent a night worrying about what I would eat tomorrow”
In an exceptionally lucid and harrowing piece in The Observer, Emma Graham-Harrison introduces us to the Venezuelan teenagers turning to prostitution to stave off hunger.
Taking Up Permanent Residence in Delcy’s Orwellian Nightmare
The government has already begun to retroactively blame Friday’s U.S. Sanctions for problems it caused years ago.
Nausea
Faced with a shockingly aggressive authoritarian onslaught, MUD has one task and one task alone: to survive.
The Two Big Macs Bet – An Accountability Post
Last month, I bet Raúl that there would be no Constituyente election on July 30th. I lost that bet. Here’s my attempt to figure out where and why I went wrong.
It’s the end of the Oil Industry as we know it (and PDVSA feels fine)
With the U.S. preparing to cut off PDVSA, you’d imagine the company would be a hubbub of contingency planning for this catastrophe. You’d be wrong.
Cheating at Solitaire
Announcing a beyond-crazy turnout figure, Tibisay Lucena puts the final nail in the National Elections Council's credibility.
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