The U.N. General Assembly just passed a landmark global treaty on arms sales. First reports indicated that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela abstained, which was perhaps not surprising...
In the last couple of weeks, it has become increasingly clear that the Maduro campaign has bought a one-way ticket on the Mental Express. In spite of this,...
With the official campaign now upon us, what’s left of the pre-campaña is online: The Maduro campaign is going big on the figure of the comandante supremo. Here,...
This feels historic, somehow. Venezuela’s premier source of satire bows to the evident: you just can’t parody a movement this good at parodying itself.
You’ve probably never heard of Rebel Diaz, a hip-hop group from NYC’s South Bronx, whose music is top-heavy with ñángara politics. Days ago, they released a new tribute...
So I got myself in a bit of trouble yesterday. My wife, who is very not-Venezuelan read Emiliana’s story about the Semana Santa operativos with evident alarm. But worse was to come when she...
As Emiliana already told us, we’re not officially in campaign yet (it starts on April 2nd) but still the electioneering is in full swing as part of the pre-campaña....
Regardless of Nicolás Maduro’s rhetoric, the facts simply speak for themselves: We’re not just dependent on the U.S. as a market for the oil exports that pay for...
Looks like the El Rodeo I’s month-old nightclub won’t the only one up and running in the Venezuelan prison system. According to El Nacional’s crime reporter Thabata Molina,...
In its last meeting, the UN Human Rights Council voted to extend the probe of the ongoing Syrian civil war until next year. The resolution was approved by...
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