It Was Just a Matter of Time
Henrique Capriles Radonski has been barred from running for public office for the next fifteen years.
Politics
Another Doozy from the TSJ
Tribunal Supremo de Justicia doubles down.
Getting the Carnet de la Patria
Eso es rapidito, they said, you’ll be home before breakfast, they said…
Caraqueños take a break from the Crisis to comment on the Crisis
People in Caracas had a lot to say about the constitutional crisis while standing in line for bread and getting their cell-phones stolen. Few believe what they're told, and the ones that do, struggle to care.
¿Ecuador el nuevo Venezuela?
El nuevo presidente ecuatoriano deberá gobernar un país en donde la mitad de su población cuestiona su legitimidad, con una compleja situación económica y entre profundo escepticismo hacia la autoridad electoral. Esto ya ha pasado antes, ¿Verdad?
Aristóbulo, a Time Machine, and Decision 156
This week’s bizarre constitutional crisis has been many things. Here’s one we tend to overlook: it’s been a stomach-churning desecration of the resource nationalism that once defined the Venezuelan left.
The Theory of the Pasante Bobo
Did Venezuela just stumble into an epic Constitutional Crisis out of sheer administrative incompetence and miscalculation? Very possibly. Were the Russians behind it? You bet.
#AutogolpeReax: What the papers say
South American papers pretty much all led with the self-coup in Venezuela yesterday. Here's a roundup.
Venezuela, a Constitutional War Zone
Venezuela doesn’t have any serious legal problems, other than the fact that it doesn’t have an executive branch, doesn’t have a legislative branch, and doesn’t have a judicial branch.
The First Significant Split in the Regime Following the Autogolpe
This is a video of regime stalwart Luisa Ortega Diaz, Venezuela's Prosecutor General. Denouncing a breakdown in the constitutional order. To sustained applause. On State Television!
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