On Dia de los Inocentes, Latin America's version of April Fools, I joked PSUV would ask the Supreme Tribunal to declare everything the National Assembly does pre-emptively unconstitutional. That was ten days ago. Today. It happened.
While Maduro speaks, a strange situation is developing outside the National Assembly. Vicepresident Aristóbulo Istúriz – Anzoategui State Governor and old time Causa R organizer made Vice-President. Very bright guy....
Possibly the worst part of the MUD's baffling, retrograde decision to have not a single woman in an AN leadership position is that it forced us to agree with Tania friggin' Diaz.
We tend to ask what one thing the new National Assembly should focus on first. But the new AN will need to do 15 things at once, and all of them well.
In letting the press into his home to chronicle his day, Julio Borges shows other opposition politicians how to create that rarest of political commodities: empathy.
Héctor Agüero, the senior member of the National Assembly, deserves more respect than we accorded him yesterday.
How was Henry Ramos Allup's first day as National Assembly chair? OK. Not great.
After a tense but largely peaceful day outside the Palacio Legislativo and a testy, historic opening session marked by a very drunk speech and a chavista walk-out, Venezuela has a new, opposition-led National Assembly.
We have a tendency to see the Constituent Assembly as a kind of magic, fast-track solution to political problems chavismo has created. Here's why that's a mistake.
This is not the time for misguided adventurism. Magical thinking will not avert the oncoming Constitutional Crisis, and revenge fantasies won't re-establish the rule of law in Venezuela.
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