In Venezuela, quacks and fraudsters prey on desperate patients
Sick people driven to despair by shortages of the drugs their doctors prescribe are an easy mark for conmen willing to peddle anything for a quick buck.
Politics
If you're hungry and you know it CLAP your hands
Can the ruling clique really be deluded enough to think CLAPs are sustainable even in the medium term? Or is the regime now not just openly destructive but, even worse, openly self-destructive?
La Copla de Burrostein
Imagine social conflict as a donkey. A donkey that has been jacked up on hormones for 13 years, and grew into colossal, two-headed mutant with a brutal thirst for chaos. We're gonna need a bigger pen.
Henri and the Challenge of Stability in Transition
Taking power from chavismo? That's the easy part. The hard part comes later, when you need to stabilize the country against an organized, armed, trained chavista paramilitary opposition. Henri Falcón has thought this through. The rest of MUD hasn't.
Thomas Hobbes in La Vega
The end of the state's monopoly over the legitimate use of violence does not imply the end of the government; it implies the end of the state.
A Hunger Riot in La Vega
Cronica.Uno's Mabel Sarmiento Garmendia and Yohana Marra on how hunger protests escalated into a day of violence and mayhem in the Western Caracas neighborhood of La Vega on Friday.
New School, Old School
For today's sobremesa, Juan tells us why Tibisay inspires more pity than anger. Imagining her as a graduate student in New York city and comparing that to her current self, he sees somebody who refused to let opportunities change her into a better person.
That time I marched to the CNE and made it
A story about Julio Borges and the CNE, back before protests, the student movement or guarimbas were even a thing.
The Deal These Two Rejected: LL + TSJ for No RR
The government tried to persuade the opposition to give up on a Recall Referendum in return for a balanced Supreme Tribunal Constitutional Chamber and freeing political prisoners. Capriles and López said 'no way.'
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