Why We Need to Insist on a Recall That Will Never Happen
Attacking MUD for insisting on an unrealistic 2016 recall is like attacking Rosa Parks for unrealistically insisting on sitting in the front of the bus: a spectacular bit of point-missing.
Politics
A Manifesto for Team Screwed
A few days ago, Quico tried to throw the MUD a bone and help them through their four-day long colonic deliberation in responding to the latest anal rape...
Shrödinger's MUD
Somehow, this weekend, MUD has contrived to be both very much alive and totally dead at the same time. Which one is it? We'll find out Monday.
When Hunger Knocks on Your Door
Elsa has worked the last 53 years of her life and she can’t retire with dignity because her salary as a university professor, her pension, and what her children bring in is not enough.
A Playbook for MUD
MUD needs to participate in the 20% signature drive, but on its terms: creating parallel mechanisms for disenfranchised people to formally register their disenfranchisement, and setting the stage for a campaign of civil disobedience.
Opposition Reacts (sort of) to CNE's Hope-Destroying 20% Statement
We look through the opposition Twittersphere to take the temperature of an opposition on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
The Day Jorge Rodríguez Overreached
As the government's chief tactician and the power behind the CNE throne, Jorge Rodríguez's job is to keep the opposition divided. But last night's decision, which kills the Recall Referendum cold, will do just the opposite.
Transport Sector on Edge Amid Protests and Calls for a Strike [Updated Twice]
If it looks like a strike, sounds like a strike, smells like a strike, tastes like a strike and feels like a strike it's a...caravan to petition the Transport Minister for a fare hike.
To Be Born in Venezuela
Having a baby is a harrowing experience at the best of times. Imagine doing it in a country with no medicines, no diapers, no surgical facilities. Now imagine doing it with no insurance.
SEBIN Arrests Activists Who Produced PJ Video Against Repression
As the police starts arresting people for making protest videos against the police repressing people who protest, Venezuela's dictatorship is now beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt.
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