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?
Life
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.
A Hunger Riot in La Vega
Cronica.Uno's Mabel Sarmiento Garmendia and Yohana Marra on how hunger protests escalated into a day of violence and mayhem in the Western Caracas neighborhood of La Vega on Friday.
That time I marched to the CNE and made it
A story about Julio Borges and the CNE, back before protests, the student movement or guarimbas were even a thing.
Much more than a matter of life and death
A breath of fresh air at the end of an asphyxiating day. ¡Vamos Vinotinto!
Juicy Webcast: F. Rod, H. Falcón & O. Ochoa on Venezuela
Tune into our live stream of Americas Society/Council of the Americas panel, right now. Quico is moderating, so it should be a lively debate...
The Crisis Through Diabetic Eyes
Pedro is 47 years old. He manages a butchery in Caracas, and struggles with the day-to-day of living in Venezuela like anyone else. Oh, and he has type 1 diabetes.
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