Hugo Chávez Frías Explains The Supreme Tribunal Ruling Shutting down the Legislative Branch
It's quite unfortunate that El Comandante's reaction to a dissolution of the AN is way more forceful than MUD's. #SalganDeSuBorrachera.
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Henry Ramos Allup Explains The Supreme Tribunal Ruling Shutting down the Legislative Branch
Yesterday, the Supreme Tribunal, for all intents and purposes. shut down Venezuela's National Assembly. Speaking on Cesar Miguel Rondón's radio show this morning, AD's Henry Ramos Allup gave the most cogent explanation yet of what happened.
The Bottom of the Pit
The Supreme Tribunal of Justice basically annulled Venezuela's Legislature. Another day, another coup d'Etat.
Hegemony’s latest: Foreign journalists are actually spies
The Venezuelan government deals with foreign journalists by accusing them of spying, then arresting and deporting them. Tubazo: we have the BBC on the record saying its reporters are not spies.
Mandela on the Guaire?
Like Mandela in South Africa, a viable opposition presidential candidate in Venezuela must establish himself as the best alternative for the government, maintain control of his party, and have strong support from a rival voting base.
Requiem for COPEI
As Copei —one of Venezuela's traditional Big Two political parties— faces outright extinction, we look back at the rise and fall (and fall and fall) of one of the institutional cornerstones of contemporary Venezuela.
An Interview with Javier Corrales
“So, just to clarify, you’re not an ‘ultra-rightist’ are you?” He laughed. “No, I don’t think so,” he said. And that’s where the interview began.
The Story Behind the Av. Baralt Protests
Mansion's Bakery, blocks away from Miraflores, is the latest casualty in the government's war on bread. It's also proof that people do go out and protest, until repression arrives, of course.
My year without Internet: A #TropicalMierda saga
In 2011, the United Nations declared internet access a Human Right, but news never made it to Venezuela. Maybe it’s still buffering.
My own words. With ketchup.
TFW you confidently tell someone "we'll see how this holds up in six months!" And then six months pass. And they were totally right.
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