End-of-Times Chronicles
What do you need to round off your no-running-water, blacked out, crime-infested, Toilet Paper-less Easter break? Crocodiles!
Politics
Lying about Margarita
Sumito Estévez wants to persuade you Margarita is a swell place to vacation in 2016. In doing so, he makes himself an accomplice to an outright swindle.
The P Word
When is the opposition going to get over the taboo that surrounds the obvious need to privatize underperforming state-owned utilities?
We Read PJ's National Production Bill, Try to Like it, Fail
PJ's National Production Law is a decent piece of legislative salesmanship. As economic policy, though, it doesn't really make very much sense.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Guri but were afraid to ask
The lower the water level at Guri goes, the more water you need to produce the same amount of power, and the more you risk damaging the actual turbines.
Liveblog: Aristóbulo at the National Assembly
The vice president went to the National Assembly to request the renewal of Maduro's National Economic Emergency Decree. Our Liveblog coverage is now concluded.
Battle of the Pollsters: 6D Edition
We take a deep dive into the polling ahead of last December's parliamentary elections and reach some unexpected conclusions about which company did best.
The Roadmap, Part VII: Clarity on Gas Prices
Where Juan Cristobal dares to imagine a future where we tax the consumption of gasoline, instead of mindlessly subsidizing it.
Clash of powers...but not as you know it.
With CNE now officially asking the Supreme Tribunal to dismiss challenges over null voting, a whole new kind of "conflicto de poderes" looms.
Amendment or recall? The answer is both.
MUD is set to announce its chosen path forward for getting rid of Maduro. To choose between a recall referendum and an amendment reducing his term in office would be a mistake.
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