LVL, Magdaleno, Seijas Rodríguez: Venezuela After 1S
I wanted to know where we stand following the September 1st protests. So I picked up the phone, called three leading Venezuelan experts and asked them.
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Radio Caracas Chronicles: The Health Care Crisis
I am a tourist telling stories with my iPhone, witnessing the slow torture of the Venezuelan people. I've never seen anything like it.
World's Least Memorable Self-Coup
How far down the rabbit hole is Venezuela? So far down that one branch of government just basically shut down another branch, and we basically yawned it off.
Julio's Campo
My neighbor Julio did everything right — worked, planned, invested for the future. I recently went with him to see his campo, the small farm he'd staked everything on. There's...virtually nothing left.
Max Weber in Villa Rosa
There's a big difference between power and authority. Max Weber knew it, and Maduro's finding out.
What the Glorious Army of El Libertador is up to these days
Henceforth, these 18 officers will be in charge of these 18 products. Do not adjust your sets, this is not a parody. (OK...the video is.)
#1S as Performance and Prelude
A protest is a communicative act. So what did 1S communicate, and to whom?
For Whom the Bailoterapia Tolls
Ironically, the defining tweet of the "Toma de Caracas" came not from the big opposition demonstration but from the squalid little chavista counterdemo.
No Violence Reported at Anti-Government Protest in Caracas
As of 10:40, Caracas remains remarkably free of violence as anti-government protesters congregate at seven points and start marching towards the East Side. That, in itself, is big news.
Bridgegate Redux: the Government shuts down access to Caracas
Without even a pretense of a reason other than to preven people protesting, chavismo is effectively shutting down all the main routes into Caracas. El que es un bebé de pecho no es Erdoğan, sino Chris Christie.
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