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.
Here's your chance to nominate people for the front of the bolivar bill, and places or things for the back.
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.
The list of Petrostates that respond to mounting deficits by cutting fuel subsidies just grew by one. One big one.
Landmark ruling of the Constitution's Article 3 threatens to destabilize the country still further ahead of a delicate parliamentary handover on January 5th.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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