Damned if you do, damned if you burn tires
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...
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Damned if you do, damned if you burn tires
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...
Tal Cual goes to court... again
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...
CAP's prophecy
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...
Trapped
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...
Leaked documentation of the CIA-backed coup
This is the reason YouTube was invented.
A Historic Low for El Nacional
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...
Cuartel de la Montaña: A Monument to an Unknown Legacy
Chávez's final resting place is part sanctuary, part military theme park, part distorted history lesson, and epitomizes the blend of personality cult and authoritarian pageantry that El Comandante finessed into his own personal brand of leadership.
The Peace Talks Conundrum
In the middle of a heavily repressed state of civil unrest that has been both magnified as a continued coup and minimized as a handful of trouble makers not...
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