Water water everywhere and not a drop is clean
There are alternatives to oil … There’s electricity in solar and wind, and electric cars. We can begin to do workarounds, albeit not rapidly, but over time we...
Politics
Adjustment or collapse? The case for collapse
As the debate about whether Venezuela is facing macroeconomic adjustment or macroeconomic collapse rages on, some traders* at giant Japanese investment bank Nomura make the case for collapse about as succinctly as is...
Postcards from El Rodeo III
A few days ago 18-year-old Clider Martínez was taken in by the National Guard while protesting in Los Palos Grandes. After being processed he was sent to...
Una Biografía Que es Puro Cuento
This…errr…how to put it? This…this. Ummm…this is. This. Uhhh. This…I mean, uh, this. O sea…THIS coño.
First I'll take your lunch money, then we'll chat.
Today, MUD suspended dialogue talks because they want concrete results instead of promises in order for conversations to continue. By having sat down for talks in the first place, they legitimized this giant farce and just bought the dictatorship lots more time.
Roberta kills dialogue
The MUD announced it was “suspending” its participation in the Unasur-sponsored dialogue process. And yes, in case you were wondering, the sarao at Miraflores was not a one-time thing,...
Jacobson tries to walk back what she said, comes up short
“At the May 8 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Venezuela, the A/S [Roberta Jacobson] made the point that the USG [US government] should not undermine the current...
I Visualized May Wrong
Back on February 22nd, I wrote “Visualize May”: an exasperated and – in retrospect – badly misguided post about the uselessness of the nascent protest movement. Well, it’s May now,...
The scandalous Mr. Aveledo
Ramón Guillermo Aveledo, the Secretary General of the MUD, got mired in a public relations disaster today. It all started this morning. During a hearing in the United States Senate, Assistant...
Tal Día Como Hoy en 1967
It’s May 8th. Quick: do you know what happened 47 years ago today? (Reblogged from 2012)
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