While caretaker President Juan Guaidó decrees the emergency and installs a situational room, the Maduro regime stays silent about the precise diagnose and forecast of the crisis, besides the propaganda trope of sabotage. This is what we can assess on the fifth day of the nationwide blackout.
On the afternoon of March 7th, the power went off in all states. In many parts of the country, there has not been a minute of electricity since then to the noon of March 10th. Here is what we know of what could happen in a country that used to export electricity and still has the largest oil reserves on Earth.
The Chilean Left created a petition to stop the Trump administration from intervening in Venezuela. We don’t think an online petition has that kind of power and Chile seems to forget who helped them out of their last dictatorship.
The most recent editorial in the New York Times about Venezuela, argues that Trump should just stay out of it. It’s a nice try but it falls flat because of the weak and naive arguments it presents. Hey, it’s the thought that counts!
Can grid decarbonization really go hand-in-hand with a strategy to increase oil production? In Leopoldo López and Gustavo Baquero’s vision, the answer is an enthusiastic ‘Yes.’
A recent poll by Datanalisis gives us a glimpse of public opinion in the era of protests. The news: Everyone hates what’s happening, but Maduro’s numbers haven’t collapsed.
As Copei —one of Venezuela's traditional Big Two political parties— faces outright extinction, we look back at the rise and fall (and fall and fall) of one of the institutional cornerstones of contemporary Venezuela.
When brain drain turns into mass exodus, the private sector in Venezuela must come up with creative strategies to ride this long crisis out.
As 2016 draws to a close, Ricardo Sucre gives us a balance of the MUD's shortcomings and opportunities, and how to move forward from the recall referendum that never was.
Entrega final del Book Club sobre la obra de Carlos Rangel: Del Buen Salvaje al Buen Revolucionario.
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