No Correspondents Allowed
SiBCI's doomed attempt to keep international media from covering 1S backfired, as anyone who spent more than five minutes thinking it through knew it would.
Life
How to Become a Pariah State
As the government escalates repression ahead of September 1st's protests, the hemispheric consensus that Maduro has gone too far is hardening.
Bolivarian Noir
I was on The Economics Detective podcast the other day, talking about everything from the Caracazo to Alfredo Serrano. It was good fun.
Book Club: Del Buen Salvaje al Buen Revolucionario (Parte I)
The book club moves forward with Rodrigo y la primera mitad de la obra de Carlos Rangel: “Del Buen Salvaje al Buen Revolucionario”. Como el libro es en castellano, lo discutimos en castellano.
Gag is the New Black
Pointing out any of the 16 cases of corruption Adán Chávez is involved in is now illegal for the press in Barinas State. Prior restraint much?
Un Calvario
It was a heady mixture of patria, red paranoia, and Bolivarian surrealism: how taking a picture of a busy, million-times-photographed Caracas landmark got us in trouble not with normal beat cops, mind you, but with Military friggin’ Counterintelligence.
Mercedes Pulido: 1938 - 2016
We mourn the passing of a gentle, tough, uncompromising example to Venezuelan women and generations to come.
Overwhelmed by Fear
The AP's Joshua Goodman has the story of Joshua Holt, the Mormon missionary from Utah who fell in love with a local girl, decided to marry her...and ended up rotting in El Helicoide political prison for his trouble.
When Bolivarianism Was Cool in the U.S.
Time was when you might find a kid named Bolivar Johnson or Bolivar Miller in any town in the U.S.
The Pérezes: Perestroika Denied
As a young engineering trainee in Ukraine, Marvin Pérez caught a glimpse of Perestroika, only to have it cruelly denied back home in Cuba. In the second of a three-part series, we follow the Perezes story of serial exile.
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