It’s not easy to love Ciudad Guayana, but I do
They say there is a thin line between love and hate. Maybe that line is a food queue.
Life
Protagonistas de la Moneda: Dos Lucas
For the Bs.2,000 bill, the last in our three part series, our readers chose to immortalize a Venezuelan renaissance man, and a magnificent celebration of our natural world.
Rain Check
After an especially brutal dry season, Caraqueños are singing in the rain. And by singing, we mean mentando madre pareja.
Por las Malas
Luis Pedro España is starting to think that the kinds of economic problems we're facing don't get solved through talk; they get solved through pain.
When it rains, it pours Jaua
This is not a briefing, just a short chronicle of a regular day pateando calle in Caracas.
Protagonistas de la Moneda: One Thousand Bolos
For the Bs.1,000 bill, our readers picked two icons of the kind of Venezuelanity that's been almost completely forgotten about: our national bard, and our greatest engineering feat. BCV, we're still waiting for your call.
Brazil Lower House votes to impeach President Dilma Rousseff
It's over for Dilma in the lower house. The senate is expected to follow suit. Within days, Nicolás Maduro will have lost by far his two biggest diplomatic allies.
Impeachment Liveblog
We are live-blogging the votes in Brasilia's lower house.
"Tchau, querida"
The image speaks volumes. Lawmakers looking to impeach Dilma Rousseff holding up signs saying “Tchau, querida” – a reference to the wiretapped conversation between Rousseff and Lula in...
Guilty
Some people have sympathy for Dilma Rousseff. After all, it would seem like she has not directly benefitted from the corruption stewing around her. But make no mistake about it - she deserves what's coming to her.
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