Reactions to Maduro’s call for a Constituent Assembly include labeling it as unconstitutional or as a strategy to distract attention away from the mess Venezuelans is facing. Here's a look at some of the most relevant statements.
Without a referendum that allows the people to decide whether they want a constituent or not, Chavismo is, once again, blatantly violating the constitution.
When they first came on the scene, the Student Leaders of 2007 were the best news for Venezuelan civil society in a very long time. Ten years on, this generation's ethos seems to be our nation's only hope.
Venezuela keeps plumbing new depths. As Raúl wrote, each one feels impossible to get used to...and then you do. This new normal, though...it gave me vertigo.
Awareness of vulnerability might be a key factor in opening space for the development of non-military solutions, “just as denial of this vulnerability through a fantasy of mastery can fuel the instruments of war."
A day spent in El Cafetal, the Home of Opposition Crazy, shows worrying signs of reversion to the most self-defeating instincts of 2014
There’s a legend opposition members like to repeat to themselves: that public employees have to be dragged kicking and screaming to rallies in support of a government they despise. The reality is a bit more complicated than that.
In a desperate gambit to hang on to power, Nicolás Maduro calls a "Constituent Assembly" able to rewrite the constitution. All signs point to it being elected along soviet lines. Can the government survive a gambit this crazy?
At the government’s May Day demonstration in PDVSA, Naky stumbles into a living diorama that encapsulates the pathos of Venezuela today.
Thanks to Chavismo’s bot armies, “Class Consciousness” was a trending topic on Twitter in Venezuela this week. How about we have a real conversation about it, minus the bots?
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