Is César Miguel going soft?
As César Miguel Rondón announces he's going to interview fewer politicos from now on, we stop to wonder: in what kind of post-apocalyptic world are we living that CMR is bored of politics?!?
Life
Trump, Chávez and the Personal Ideology of Showmanship
In four years, a Trump voter will look around at his declining quality of life and blame not Trump but an “economic war” with China or Mexico, aided by treacherous elites in Washington and left wing intellectuals, always eager to sell out the National Interest.
How to Culture Jam a Populist in Four Easy Steps
We tend to think resisting a populist is like boxing: a question of punching him harder than he punches you. It's not. It's like judo: the much subtler, trickier art of turning his strength against him.
The Archbishop of Barquisimeto has had just about enough
In Lara State, the church is now openly at war with the government, as the yearly Divina Pastora procession turns even more political than it usually is.
Verle la cara a Marilyn
En el hospital no hay morfina. Marilyn no se queja.
I Don't Care if El Sistema Doesn't Fight Poverty
A randomized controlled trial has just determined with minute mathematical precision that economists have no friggin' clue why art matters.
Peak Venezuela
A bus-ride in Charallave crystallizes what we’d feared: 2017 will make 2016 look like child’s play.
Dept. of Overly Literal Metaphors: Venezuela's Academies Ransacked by Thugs
Bájale dos, metaphor.
Odebrecht Owns It, Venezuela Ignores It
The nice thing about writing this one for WaPo is that, for once, I was able to break free from the tyranny of “allegedly.” Journos will know what I...
Curaçao weary as Venezuelan boat people begin to arrive
Venezuelans used to go to Curaçao to max out the Cadivi limits on their credit cards. These days, they're arriving hungry and destitute and looking to stay, not shop. And islanders are deeply uneasy about it.
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