A propósito del asalto a El Estímulo
El periodismo en Venezuela no ha muerto. Sigue ahí. Vivo. Escurridizo. Colándose entre los barrotes. Tan urgente como siempre. A pesar de todo, claro. Lo que hemos visto...
Politics
MUD leaders try to build unity on a foundation of contempt for the base
The growing chasm between MUD's putative leaders and the activist base is growing to crisis levels...but instead of listening, MUD's negotiators have decided to lecture us like we're five year olds.
What the conflict takes from us
There is no handbook for riding out a dictatorship. We demand our politicians give us certainties nobody can give, then attack them when they refuse to lie to us.
The Student Movement's Mission Impossible
The Movimiento Estudiantil can't be what it was in 2007. But maybe we could even be more.
An Agreement Binding Only On Us
If the government won't accept a new Supreme Tribunal, mediation is a farce. (And the government won't accept a new Supreme Tribunal.)
MUD Betrays Its Supporters
The interim agreement just reached at the Vatican-mediated dialogue is nothing short of a scandal.
The Opposition goes all in for a dialogue of the damned
Today is November 11th. As the opposition's self-imposed deadline for dialogue to show major progress comes and goes, our leaders seem more interested in habituating us to tyranny than in fighting it.
A Dictatorship Without a Dictator
The people who run Venezuela didn't "rise" to power. They found power pre-stolen, in the form of a state organized around a single man who's no longer there.
The Student Movement won't come back overnight
The Movimiento Estudiantil had its first call to the streets independent from political parties in some years. It wasn't all that, but it's a start.
Dialogue, Actually [Spot the Difference edition]
As we wait for news to develop on the Dialogue front, I thought it appropriate to revive this post I wrote back in 2014, to see if we learned anything useful.
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