#1S as Performance and Prelude
A protest is a communicative act. So what did 1S communicate, and to whom?
Politics
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.
The Survival of Hope
It’s hard to explain what you feel when you’re 23 years old and went through your first tear gas volley 14 years ago, at age 9. Carlos Egaña explains it’s been like, growing up in our Venezuela.
This Time, It's Different
There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.
Otro Calvario
I went door knocking for Voluntad Popular in El Calvario, a shantytown in municipio El Hatillo. People asked about our political prisoners by first name, like they're friends from down the street.
Maduro's Solitude
Nicolás Maduro cut a lonely figure in Plaza Caracas yesterday. What does it mean that his ministers don't even bother to force their civil servants to walk a few blocks to listen to his speeches anymore?
MUD, feel the room!
The run up to 1S has laid it bare: Venezuela is no longer a country of two roughly equal halves. Everybody seems to have grasped this, except MUD.
A New Generation of Heroes
It's easy to lose sight of it in the heat of the moment, and given the pervasive cynicism of the zeitgeist. But the fight against this military dictatorship is just as suffused with heroism as the last.
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