"Like those people who win the lottery and go bankrupt within a year..."
Joanna Hausmann (yes relation) has a rant with a difference this week. As a five minute introduction to Venezuela for the curious-but-clueless, it's hard to do better.
Life
Copa América Infrastructure Nowadays
To kick off the Centennial Copa America today, we take a trip across Venezuela to survey the state of our stadium infrastructure and hopefully get a morale boost along the way.
Strategy vs. tactics
When reading the diplomatic battles being waged on the topic of Venezuela, it's easy to forget what the long-term goal is ... or should be.
LIVE NOW: OAS Permanent Council Session on Venezuela
Argentina, along with the United States, Barbados, Honduras, Perú and México are co-sponsoring an extraordinary session of the Permanent Council to discuss the situation in Venezuela.
Teacher's World
Cronica.Uno’s Mabel Sarmiento reports on Caracas’s absentee schoolteacher crisis. Who has time to teach when you have to spend half your life in line to buy food?
Et tu, Macri?
Why on earth is Argentina trying to block application of the Inter-American Democratic Charter in Venezuela? The tawdry story follows.
What we're talking about when we're talking about a zaperoco
We don’t have a single name for this thing lurking just around the corner. El vainón is vaguer than that: an image, a metaphor, mixed with fear, anger, and hope.
Misery Porn as Clickbait
The craziest damn thing has started happening to the stuff I write about Venezuela abroad...people are clicking on it.
From the Archive: Living Out Your Own Counterfactual
I wrote this post in September 2013, before I'd really met Moisés Naím, let alone started writing with him. The price of oil was at $111, and the term "economic degeneracy" already described our situation. It's only gotten more relevant in the three years since.
Venezuela Falls Apart: A Global Dispatches Podcast
"Why hadn't Venezuela collapsed sooner?". Our own Francisco Toro is interviewed by Mark Goldberg at Global Dispatches Podcast.
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