A Night of Impossible Tensions
Avianca's rushed suspension of service to Venezuela, together with the decision to evacuate U.S. diplomats' families, builds up a picture of a country under unprecedented pressure.
Constituyente News from a Parallel Universe
A look at the news in a alternate reality where MUD agreed to take part in next Sunday’s constituyente elections.
The Audacity of Vote
Millions of Venezuelans literally risk their lives to self-organize a vote right under the dictatorship’s noses. And world media poo-poo it as “only symbolic.” Erm... no.
16J Thoughts: Who Needs this Useless State?
After a day that dramatically showcased volunteers doing things better than the state, Venezuela lives something that genuinely has no precedent: its own libertarian moment.
16J: Putting Meat on the Bones of Civil Disobedience
For a very long time we were stuck in a cycle of continually appealing to the same institutions we claimed to be disowning. That ends tomorrow.
Two Big Macs
A while back, I bet Raúl Stolk two Big Macs that there’s isn’t going to be an election for the Constituent Assembly on July 30th, like the government keeps saying. I still think I’m going to win that one.
Venezuela's Energy Policy is its own Opposite
Going by recent official statements, Venezuela plans to both privatize more of and nationalize all of its oil industry.
Zapatero is back, bitches!
As Venezuela's highest profile political prisoner is shifted from solitary confinement at a military prison into House Arrest, let's not lose sight of the behind-the-scenes play: the Zapatero Track is back on, y'all.
Blood on the walls
As a violent mob bursts into Venezuela's National Assembly and physically attacks the majority, the alarm bells for civil conflict and atrocity crimes could not be ringing any louder.
What you weren't paying attention to if all you were paying attention to was chopper dude
Whatever his real motivations may have been, what Chopper Dude achieved was the mother of all distractions: a 48-hour news void into which all kinds of sordid stories fell, never to be heard of again.
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