A lesson from Borges
In letting the press into his home to chronicle his day, Julio Borges shows other opposition politicians how to create that rarest of political commodities: empathy.
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ANTV, RIP
On New Year's Eve, the government strips the National Assembly's TV station of all its equipment, and rolls its broadcasting onto VTV. Lindo.
Nos Expropiaron Hasta el 31 de Diciembre
Today ought to be a day for posting about 12 grapes and midnight luggage-toting strolls, not Christian friggin' Zerpa. If I had any choice in the matter, that's what I'd be writing about. But I don't, so I won't.
Who Should be On The Bs.1,000 Bank Note?
Here's your chance to nominate people for the front of the bolivar bill, and places or things for the back.
What's the 45,475th stripe to a tiger?
Rather than the voters, it will be a tribunal that has never ruled against the government that will decide who sits in the National Assembly. It's a dangerous move.
Neoliberalism in Unlikely Places
The list of Petrostates that respond to mounting deficits by cutting fuel subsidies just grew by one. One big one.
28/12: TSJ Preoverturns All Incoming National Assembly Acts as Unconstitutional
Landmark ruling of the Constitution's Article 3 threatens to destabilize the country still further ahead of a delicate parliamentary handover on January 5th.
The Last Oil Boom?
If you're going to read just one thing this week, forget the intramural MUD histrionics and read Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's takedown of OPEC's World Oil Outlook.
Hallacanálisis 2015: By the Numbers
The results are in. As of 11:30 a.m. on Christmas day, 452 of you participated in our Hallaca Survey. And the winner is...Miss Colombia!
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