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.
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.
How a single, bad development essay came to blight Venezuelan development thinking for the next eighty years.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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