Cumaná in the News (For All the Wrong Reasons)
The New York Times spends some time pateando calle in Cumaná a week after the Eastern city was rocked by the worst riots of the crisis yet.
Life
If You Outlaw Border-Crossing, Only Outlaws Will Cross the Border
La Silla Vacía explains how, ten months after the border with Colombia was officially closed, the whole border region around Cúcuta has turned into a vast safe haven for organized crime.
Malcorra de tu Madre!
Doesn't the Argentinean foreign minister's name sound like a grosería? After you read Juan's exposé over at Foreign Policy, you will be mentando Malcorra as well.
Enough already with "Sembrar el Petróleo"
How a single, bad development essay came to blight Venezuelan development thinking for the next eighty years.
El Día Que Leí Una Sentencia del TSJ y Estuve de Acuerdo
Violence is so normalized in Venezuela that we all suddenly decided it's fine to share extremely graphic images on social media. Anabella nos explica, en español, por qué no lo es.
If you're hungry and you know it CLAP your hands
Can the ruling clique really be deluded enough to think CLAPs are sustainable even in the medium term? Or is the regime now not just openly destructive but, even worse, openly self-destructive?
La Copla de Burrostein
Imagine social conflict as a donkey. A donkey that has been jacked up on hormones for 13 years, and grew into colossal, two-headed mutant with a brutal thirst for chaos. We're gonna need a bigger pen.
Almagro's Long Game
At first, pushing the Democratic Charter without having the votes first seemed like a rookie mistake. Now it looks almost visionary. Could this have been Almagro's plan all along?
PDVSA's Garish May Production Collapse
To see the single most destructive trend in Venezuela today, forget about CLAPs, about colas, the TSJ or the CNE or the CIA. Look, instead, to PDVSA's production statistics.
Thomas Hobbes in La Vega
The end of the state's monopoly over the legitimate use of violence does not imply the end of the government; it implies the end of the state.
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