The Venezuela You Only Find at the Protests
I joined Primero Auxilios UCAB. In anguish, my mom asks me why I insist on risking my life to go out for protest after protest. Here's my answer.
Politics
The Hollow Campaign for a Hollow Constituyente
Shmaltzy music, aggressively smiling people and straight-up plagiarism: the propaganda state is using every trick in the book to sell us on Maduro's Constituent Assembly.
Cancun, the OAS, and Venezuela’s Prosecutor General
Luisa Ortega Díaz has begun creating a paper trail that will be invaluable down the road. It’s time the hemisphere took her seriously as an interlocutor.
CLAPs Food Distribution Turns Out to be a Giant Scam
National Assembly member Carlos Paparoni lays out the scam surrounding CLAPs food imports from Mexico in specific, galling detail.
Pseudolaw: How chavismo survives by aping the law to destroy it
Much like pseudoscience, pseudolaw uses the outward trappings of law to pervert its essence. Thankfully, the opposition is finally showing some backbone in its fight against this corrosive attack on legality.
Datanalisis: Everything Is Terrible, but not Everyone Hates Maduro
A recent poll by Datanalisis gives us a glimpse of public opinion in the era of protests. The news: Everyone hates what’s happening, but Maduro’s numbers haven’t collapsed.
Don’t Blame the Constitution for Our Winner-Takes-All Politics
What makes controlling the Executive Branch so valuable in Venezuela isn’t our Constitution, it’s the fact that the government ignores it without consequences.
The Unsinkable Luisa Ortega Díaz
Swiftly moving down her list of to-do's, the Prosecutor General is now after 13 justices illegally appointed by the last chavista National Assembly in 2015.
The Day Three Cops Assailed Me
One minute, Luis was just walking home from a protest. The next, he became one more anonymous victim of police brutality. His bruises are a reminder of the risks we all face when out on the streets.
#TheWeeklyArepa Editorial: A way out
Each Friday, Raúl regales the members of our mailing list with a scrumptious little nugget of wisdom in our Weekly Arepa. Here’s this week’s.
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