It's no mystery that Misiones are not sustainable. They create dependency and do not even properly focus on those who really need them. But the devastating effects of this failed social policy are beyond what you would imagine.
What do you get if you add a completely controllable and vaccinable disease plus Venezuela’s health system? Chaos, wild tropical chaos, Guayana style.
The International Crisis Group commends us to a higher power.
So it's supposed to be my job to help you figure out what the Trump presidency [[[deep shudder]]] will mean for Venezuela. Except I can't do my job, because trying to predict how Donald Trump will behave in any give context is a lost cause.
However much trouble we thought we were in, we're in way worse trouble than that.
A large hospital in Valencia gets the New Yorker treatment this week, at the start a long piece by William Finnegan that’s hard to do justice to with a...
Human Rights Watch takes an in-depth look into food shortages, a crippled healthcare system and protests, and urges regional governments to press Maduro to address the crisis once for all.
A Facebook post on Alejandro Velasco's wall sends me into a deep reverie, as I realize "wait, half the people who read Caracas Chronicles probably don't remember what the early Chávez years were like."
Official prices are rising. This means the government must've come to its senses and started lifting price controls, right? Not at all! Pedro Rosas leads you on a guided tour of a crazy system.
Your Holiness, dialogue is the search of consensus through reason between people. The quid of our dilemma is this: we want to be considered "people"again.
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