Nicolás Maduro just published an Op-Ed pieces in the New York Times. We could do a point-by-point debunking of his bullshit claims but that would not the best use of our time here. The real question isn't "what" Maduro is saying, but “why?”
Last night, Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal said that, indeed, Maria Corina Machado’s expulsion from the National Assembly could stand. On its own, this shouldn’t seem so shocking – chavismo has...
After last week’s vote in the OAS, where the United States lost to Venezuela in a vote to let Maria Corina Machado speak, the consensus in Venezuela has...
After last week’s vote in the OAS, where the United States lost to Venezuela in a vote to let Maria Corina Machado speak, the consensus in Venezuela has...
Some people say that the best way to make decisions is to “trust your gut.” As political advice goes, we can do a lot worse. However, the danger...
The month-long shut-down of the La Churuata neighborhood in Puerto Ordaz seems to be over, after a simply huge military action to lift it. Correo del Caroni’s Maisdulin Younis...
As Venezuela slides deeper into the dictatorial morass, the protest movement is setting off a major political crisis. It just happens that that crisis isn’t inside the government, it’s...
Watch what happens when a Venezuelan woman tries to buy soap two days in a row. Turns out that, in Venezuela, you can indeed be too clean. Fancy scanners...
One of the constant images of the current wave of protests has been the overwhelming and excessive use of tear gas by the National Guard and other security...
Every few months, Francisco Rodríguez lobs a conceptual hand-grenade at the center of the opposition Conventional Wisdom about the Venezuelan economy. The series of papers he’s written for...
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