On the brand new FiveThirtyEight.com, Friend of the Blog Dorothy Kronick does the kind of demolition job on Bolivarian Socialism’s record usually associated with a wrecking crew. Eye-opening stuff,...
When The Daily Beast asked me for another post, I decided to touch upon why it is so hard for Venezuelans from different sides of the aisle to...
A reader who prefers not to be named sends in this first-hand account of yesterday’s march-and-melée at the UCV Campus. It began with the usual confusion about the...
For the past few days, I’ve been pondering why Quico’s post blasting the guarimba protest movement (here, and in The New Republic) grated on me so much. I...
For the past few days, I’ve been pondering why Quico’s post blasting the guarimba protest movement (here, and in The New Republic) grated on me so much. I...
Missing from the news cycle last week was the decision of a Caracas lower court deciding to hear a lawsuit brought by National Assembly Chairman Diosdado Cabello against the...
Carlos Andrés Pérez was always a controversial figure, hated by some, deemed great by others. Whatever your views regarding this “Gocho”, his two terms as president paint an...
It’s now been five weeks since the protest in San Cristóbal that set off Venezuela’s latest revolt. Time to take stock. Outside the Andean states, protests remain largely...
This is the reason YouTube was invented.
In a press conference today, Venezuela’s Human Rights Ombudswoman, Gabriela Ramírez, made a genuinely shocking statement. Making up legal standards off the cuff, she sought to redefine torture...
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