Between Looters and Prayers
A woman carrying a child runs wildly to reach the food line. A Metro passenger reads the gospels and quotes Chávez. Senseless, bizarre, but real.
Life
In One Way, God Does Provide
Reuters' Alexandra Ulmer has a piece on how the mango went from seasonal treat to lifeline in Venezuela.
A Moratorium on the Isms
Socialism doesn't work. We know that. End of debate. Is it? No. It is not.
Keiko: The Doorstop Candidate
Keiko Fujimori is a paradox of a wedge politician: a conservative loathed by the rich and adored by the poor, she bring with her all the baggage of her authoritarian father. But she also brings a sensible economic plan, and the political capital to carry it through.
PPK: The Peruvian Antidote to Populism?
Perú votes for president today, and polls suggest Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a 77 year old technocrat, could pull off the unlikeliest of upsets. We take a closer look at Peru's anti-anti-politician.
"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.
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?
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