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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Why on earth is Argentina trying to block application of the Inter-American Democratic Charter in Venezuela? The tawdry story follows.
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.
The craziest damn thing has started happening to the stuff I write about Venezuela abroad...people are clicking on it.
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