"A Week is a Long Time in Politics"
A Rip Van Winkle waking up from a week-long sleep today would hardly recognize the political moment Venezuela is now living.
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OAS: Special Meeting of the Permanent Council (round 3) [UPDATED]
Twenty countries called for an emergency session today. Bolivia cancelled it. Argentina's Foreign Minister flew all the way from Buenos Aires. Honduras has been named temporary president. Madness, I tell you, madness!
¿Ecuador el nuevo Venezuela?
El nuevo presidente ecuatoriano deberá gobernar un país en donde la mitad de su población cuestiona su legitimidad, con una compleja situación económica y entre profundo escepticismo hacia la autoridad electoral. Esto ya ha pasado antes, ¿Verdad?
Is Ecuador the next Venezuela?
Ecuador's new president will govern a country where over half of the population questions his legitimacy, amidst a complex economic situation and skepticism over the CNE's impartiality. Sound familiar?
¿Qué está pasando en Ecuador? [UPDATE]
A dispatch from our guy in Ecuador, as exit polls start pouring in.
Venezuela, a Constitutional War Zone
Venezuela doesn’t have any serious legal problems, other than the fact that it doesn’t have an executive branch, doesn’t have a legislative branch, and doesn’t have a judicial branch.
Hudson on the Guaire
Bloomberg tracked down Michael Hudson, Maduro's new favourite economist. Turns out he's not quite as enamoured of Maduro as Maduro is of him.
Venezuela Meets Regional Concern With Threats
Multilateral diplomacy is the only way to go to ensure that Maduro releases all political prisoners, allows elections, accepts appropriate humanitarian aid, and re-establishes the independence of all branches of government.
Hegemony’s latest: Foreign journalists are actually spies
The Venezuelan government deals with foreign journalists by accusing them of spying, then arresting and deporting them. Tubazo: we have the BBC on the record saying its reporters are not spies.
OAS: Special Meeting of the Permanent Council (round 2) [UPDATED]
We were supposed to be doing a shot every time Delcy said "injerencia," "derecha," or "imperialismo, " but switched the rules halfway through to "drink whenever the word "diálogo" is said." Big mistake.
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