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.
Life
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!
Crowdsourcing the Perfect Hallaca
Fill out our survey and let us know which ingredients you can't stand in an hallaca, and which ones you can't do without.
Hallaquiplomacy
Two Venezuelans - each with strong, settled ideas about how you make a proper hallaca - get married. Roberto Nasser chronicles the delicate, high-stakes culinary negotiation that plays out in his kitchen year after year.
Catching the Nutcracker at the Teresa Carreño
Caracas's flagship Teresa Carreño Theater has no coffee in the coffeeshop and no tickets in the ticket booths. What it does have, though, is Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. And it remains magnificent, just as it has been for the last 20 years.
Roberto Rincón trades his little Woodlands house for a jail cell
Roberto Rincón, the enchufado of Tradequip and Ovarb Industrial fame, is spending tonight in a Houston-area federal jail cell awaiting arrainment on money laundering charges.
A trail of dust
We constantly hear about the cocaine transiting through our country. But what about the white powder that stays here?
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