The town of Barranquitas, on the Lago de Maracaibo, has the highest incidence of Huntington’s Disease in the world. Research there has brought an amazing breakthrough — but will the people of Barranquitas benefit?
The days when chavismo sought influence through oil spending and ideological appeals are over. But, amid a rash of elections this year, could Maduro still hack his way back to relevance?
Ricardo Hausmann goes there: Venezuela needs a foreign military intervention. His case is eloquent, but why would world leaders devote their blood and treasure to our fight?
Maslow? Give me a break. Pernilgate isn't about food. It's about the illusion of abundance amid dire scarcity, and about the scale of devastation a government can inflict when nobody who makes economic policy understands the concept of opportunity cost.
December's pork-leg riots left middle class Venezuelans seething in contempt of people who care more about a Christmas pork roast than basic freedom and democracy. They never learned Maslow's lesson: when you're hungry, nothing else matters.
This year, for our traditional New Year’s Eve dinner, I’ll be the only person art the table who won’t finish his grapes before midnight.
As Delcy Rodríguez humiliates recently released political prisoners by carefully erasing their experiences, we meditate on the perverts’ fraught relationship with the truth.
There are many political prisoners we don’t know about, whose families have no access to the press, neglected in the anonymity of group arrests, unreported for fear of reprisal. This is a brief description of their tragedies, divided into the groups in which they were released.
All we want for Christmas is a Feliz Navidad.
It's become tradition: each year he growls and drums his fingers thinking of how he’ll keep Christmas from coming to Venezuela. What does the Grinch have in store this time? Anabella Abadi wrote this post on November 6 this year, and it's prophetic. Down to the children-kidnapping bit.
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