4 a.m. in Palo Verde
BANG!! BANG-BANG!!! I was convinced it was a coup d’état. BAAANG! – LOUD. As the fog of sleep cleared, I slowly grasped it was no such thing – my technological condition had just regressed by about three centuries.
Politics
Zapatero is back, bitches!
As Venezuela's highest profile political prisoner is shifted from solitary confinement at a military prison into House Arrest, let's not lose sight of the behind-the-scenes play: the Zapatero Track is back on, y'all.
The Trancazo I Saw from My Window
Trancazo Tuesday was a day of mayhem in La Candelaria. This is what it felt like seen from my living room window.
Blood on the walls
As a violent mob bursts into Venezuela's National Assembly and physically attacks the majority, the alarm bells for civil conflict and atrocity crimes could not be ringing any louder.
48 Hours in the Life of Luisa
Show trials, viral videos, unappointments and reappointments, former foes turned friends and friends turned foe. More has happened to Prosecutor General since Monday than happens to a normal person in a lifetime.
Unequally Repressed: Why USB Students Walk while UPEL Kids Rot in Jail
After fifteen chamos from Universidad Simón Bolívar were arrested, the internet erupted and, soon, they were freed. Students from less prestigious universities can’t count on that.
Mangokistán Chronicles
In one famously combative corner of Ciudad Guayana, the entire community has come together – from everyone’s aunt to the kids in protest gear – with one simple goal in mind: to keep the roads closed until the government falls.
What you weren't paying attention to if all you were paying attention to was chopper dude
Whatever his real motivations may have been, what Chopper Dude achieved was the mother of all distractions: a 48-hour news void into which all kinds of sordid stories fell, never to be heard of again.
¿Con qué se come el 350?
I made it my mission to go around Caracas for two days asking everyone I know what they thought about “el trescincuenta”. Here’s what I learned.
The Politics Of Tears
For years, Brazil’s been cashing in on Venezuelan repression. But with the latest sale of tear gas stopped by the Foreign Ministry, that’s now changing.
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