I heart dialogue, says @yoanisanchez
Hit it, Yoani: “Last Thursday, spellbound Cuban TV viewers were able to watch a debate between a portion of the opposition in Venezuela and representatives of the government....
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Eight things you and I can agree on
(With my apologies to those who think “dialogue” is a bad word) A few days have passed since the session where two different countries collided in Miraflores. Most...
The mysterious kidnapping of Nairobi Pinto
On April 6th, Venezuelan journalist Nairobi Pinto, who works as head of correspondents for the TV news channel Globovision, was kidnapped by masked individuals outside of her home in...
Perceptions of a crime wave
Venezuela’s Tourism Minister Andrés Izarra (infamous for having laughed about Venezuela’s high death rates on an international cable show in 2010), recently had this to say “[la inseguridad] es un problema real,...
First point of dialogue: what is the Constitution?
Chavistas insist on making life really difficult for those of us who want to support dialogue. The Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Ricardo Patiño, said some seemingly innocuous things today that,...
Telenovela politics, by @SimpataXKingKon
Ibsen Martínez is a Venezuelan playwright and essayist who needs no introductions. His latest OpEd for the New York Times links the Spear murders, telenovela productions, Teodoro Petkoff, and scarcity...
More Deynas, Fewer Carlas
On Thursday, March 27th, in Costa Rica, the girls from the Vinotinto U-17 made history. The faced Canada, a formidable foe, in the World Cup U-17 in the quarter...
Show up, save face, and enjoy the canapés
Memo to Maria Corina, Ledezma, and the rest of the Intransigents: who ever said that sitting down and talking with the government meant abandoning the streets? Can’t...
Relying on the newsprint of neighbors (2nd Update)
As more visible forms of pressure against the media are gaining in prominence, the newsprint shortage faced by most newspapers in Venezuela (which I coined Newsprint-geddon) is still on...
Roadblocks for democracy
Right now, the current debate in the opposition seems to be on whether protests are convenient or not. I think we should focus more on the type of...
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