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.
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 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.
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.
What kind of political leadership declares the country’s constitution order has been broken just to take it back a week after?
The idea that MUD has just gone out and made a blunder as stupid as this mediation blunder looks strains all belief. There has to be an important part we're not seeing. But what?
I viscerally hate the concept of dialogue with this thuggish regime. And yet I see it setting free some of the people I care most about in the world: our political prisoners. Come take a tour through my mixed emotions.
After an all-nighter at La Rinconada, the government and the opposition (minus VP) have set up a new negotiation track to work through the mess. In unrelated news, it's Halloween.
Non-violent resistance takes minute preparation: not just physical and intellectual, but spiritual, too. Does MUD really understand what it’s signing up for?
Yesterday's Paro Nacional Ciudadano got mixed reviews. Fears of wage increase-related layoffs and quincena Friday definitely played against a full-on stoppage.
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