The conventional wisdom is that 6D proves the moderates right and the #Salidistas wrong. That's a dangerously simplistic interpretation that could cripple a New Majority that will need the streets in the weeks ahead.
In today's sobremesa, Juan calls for a truce.
Love him or loathe him - and, deep down, we know you loathe him - Henry Ramos Allup gave a master-class in politics this week. Imagine what he could do as AN Chair.
On 6D, the government lost because the economy collapsed. But the New Majority won because it empowered thousands of people nationwide to keep the vote clean and peaceful in the communities where they live.
Diosdado and Nicolás are doing their darndest to make sure chavismo disappears. That ... is not necessarily a good thing.
The defeat suffered by chavismo is a monster of its own creation. Rules of the game they designed to favor the majority they had in the past helped the New Majority.
Lashing out at the poor just because you're sad is a new low for the Venezuelan President.
The Government vows to let the Lame Duck National Assembly appoint 12 judges to replace the Supreme Tribunal retirees. MUD's move? Remind them who the new sheriff in town is.
Political winds are changing in Venezuela, and even the goons know this. But is it too little, too late?
A government that faces no scrutiny was defeated by a society that is "hasta la coronilla" of being controlled - according to Javier Corrales, this is what 6D was about.
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