Poll-yanna Chronicles
Every poll published this cycle and every seat projection, in one place. Thanks, Jimmy Wales!
Life
Nueva Cádiz Today
Review of Flor de la Mar, a gorgeous 2012 documentary short about life in Cubagua that ties together Latin America's earliest resource boom with its latest.
Mérida is Shaking
Two moderate earthquakes and over 100 smaller aftershocks have kept Mérida shaking this month. It has everyone here wondering, what a Gocho Big One struck?
La Tumba / The Tomb
The Tomb brings you inside the SEBIN torture chambers deep beneath Plaza Venezuela. Here, director Maru Morón explains how the short came into being.
Venezuelan Justice: A Sleep of Death
It's one thing for your aunt in El Cafetal say the justice system is rigged. It's something else altogether when the most prestigious legal organizations on earth start saying the same thing.
The left begins to pay
Mauricio Macri's win in Argentina may be the beginning of the region's leftist chickens coming home to roost.
Argentina's elections spell victory for Venezuela
The story began in 1998 in Venezuela, the northernmost point of our sub-continent. Who knew that, 17 years later, the same story began to change on its southernmost point?
La Simón: Facts, Problems and Half a Solution
What if we got over our elitism complexes and took a long, hard look at what a University can do for a deeply unequal society?
Gerrymandering the Judicial Branch
Always thinking one step ahead, Chavismo knows that ultimate power lies within the courts. They're not going down without a fight.
Enough with the Hecho en Venezuela crap
La Vinotinto has gotten off to its worst World Cup qualifiers start in recent history. Don't blame it on Sanvicente, blame it on decades of overzealous patriotism.
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