How Colombia does 'I Told You So'
Colombians have a way with words. President Juan Manuel Santos is no exception.
Life
Picking Up the Pieces from Trump’s Empty Threat
The international community was making good progress on isolating and punishing the Maduro Regime. Then Donald Trump had to start running that giant mouth of his, bigly.
A Policy Option for Venezuela: Oil-for-Food
The U.S. needs a way to put meaningful pressure on the Maduro regime without making oil prices spike or Venezuelans starve. The way you do that is Oil-for-Food.
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.
Hannah Dreier, for Team Screwed.
I've run out of G-rated words to describe our descent into all-out dictatorial communist hell. Thankfully, Hannah Dreier has our back on The Global POLITICO podcast. Have a listen.
1902 and You
Imagine Nicolás facing the economic sanctions of the world by enlisting troops and declaring war. Crazy? Yes, but it wouldn't be the first time a Venezuelan autocrat acts this way.
My city is flooding, and it’s Maduro’s fault
People say Maduro is lazy. I have to disagree: he works tirelessly day in and day out to find new and innovative ways to kill us all.
Malnutrition skyrockets at Caracas Children's Hospital
With a country reaching emergency levels of medicine scarcity, the other critical shortage, food, is turning into famine.
Could U.S. Sanctions Deliver Venezuela into Russia’s Sphere of Influence
As the Trump White House mulls sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry, we consider the upsetting possibility that we’re just a pawn in Putin’s grand strategy.
Official Stubbornness is killing Venezuelan Patients
The government hears stories about a Humanitarian Crisis and sees a public relations problem at best, an international plot at worst. Me? I see people dying.
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