How Many Luis Diazes are Out There?
Luis Diaz and his son, Luis Diaz, were arrested in Miami yesterday on Big League money laundering charges. Wait...you've never heard of Luis Diaz? That's exactly the point. Part of #SobornoThursday at CC.
Life
Odebrecapuskicapubul!
Odebrecht are true South American innovators: the Brazilian company put buying politicians on the kind of streamlined, industrial footing we all knew it could reach! Will anyone in Venezuela investigate?
ICYMI: The Action-Packed Life of Martín Rodil
Sitting on hot info about Venezuelan malfeasance that might be of interest to Uncle Sam? Bloomberg Businessweek profiles the guy you need to call...
Pran Populism: How prison thugs fanned the flames in Ciudad Bolívar
By now, two things about the Sack of Ciudad Bolívar are clear: first, this was huge. Second, the riots didn’t really spread outside Bolívar State. To understand why, you have to understand pran culture, Ciudad Bolívar style.
Reactions to Ciudad Bolívar
What has been our political leadership's response to the horrendous events of this weekend?
Dug In: The Bolivarenses Who Haven't Ventured Outside since Thursday
While thousands loot, thousands more Ciudad Bolívar residents are holed up at home, scanning social media obsessively, too scared to go outside at all. We talk to some Bolivarences who are now dug in.
A Weekend in Hell: I Witnessed The Sack of Ciudad Bolívar
A Bolivarense sends us his first-hand account of his town amid a spasm of violence, with all the norms of society collapsing and a Hobbesian nightmare afoot.
The Inevitable Spreads
It’s the third day of looting in Ciudad Bolívar, and they're starting to run out of places to loot.
Ciudad Bolívar as Hors D'Oeuvre
Nicolás Maduro has been forced to reverse his insane decision to take the Bs.100 bill out of circulation, but not before turning Ciudad Bolívar into a terrifying taste of what awaits the whole country under his rule.
Boundless outrage
The Venezuelan government's criminal decision to invalidate 77% of the country's cash will be remembered as the most unhinged, unfair, and immoral economic measure of our history.
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