Constituyenqué?
Just 11 days after it was unveiled, talk of a National Constituent Assembly is thin on the ground. There’s a good reason for that: there isn’t going to be any Consituyente. The call has already failed.
Politics
“Colectivo” Responsibility
Could the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela be found responsible, under international law, for Colectivos’ abuses? Yes. Here’s why.
Cruz Verde: First Aid Right Up by El Piquete
Instead of protesting or watching from the sidelines, they risk their own skin to save those wounded in protests. Here's what it's like being a Cruz Verde volunteer.
Mérida Escalates
There was unprecedented violence at protests in Mérida on Monday, as protesters faced sharply stepped-up repression with a level of determination that's never been seen before.
Fearing Hope: Confessions of a Wrecked Mind
Venezuela wrecks your mind. Being manipulated, threatened, gaslighted, and abused with chavista mind games for a decade and a half will do that to you. The mark of that wrecked mind is a panicky fear of hope itself.
Three Venezuelan doctors die at sea
Venezuelan doctors are now sailing to Trinidad in search for supplies they can no longer find back home. This week, three of them did not make it back after their boat stalled and sank at sea.
An Inconvenient Fact: Not all debt requires National Assembly approval
The claim that “new debt cannot be contracted without Assembly approval” has been one of the opposition’s most effective lines of attack against. Unfortunately, as a matter of law, it’s mostly wrong.
A Brief History of Communism’s Constituyentes
A quick scan of ñángara constitution-making from Vladimir Lenin to Manuel Zelaya, with pitstops in Cuba, Nicaragua and the fever-swamps of Tony Negri’s philosophy.
“Who’s coming? Everyone, right?”
Perhaps Venezuelans are clueless about whether we'll reach safe harbor doing what we're doing. But one thing we’re positive about: we’re through trying to adapt ourselves to this hell.
Valencia isn't spared
For three days, Venezuela's third largest city has witnessed the worst looting since 1989. The warehouses that store and distribute much of the food Venezuela eats lay bare. There's fear in people’s eyes.
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