A solitary fight?
February has come and gone, and it leaves in its wake a country in a complete state of turmoil. If this uprising has gained anything so far, is...
Politics
The Parable of the $175,000 Greenback
Say you come into Venezuela with just $1 and an eye for business. Just how much money can you turn that bill into using tried-and-true, being-used-right-now scams? With...
When Chaos Comes to Your Doorstep
Rafael Osío Cabrices writes a powerful personal essay on what it’s been like living half a block from Plaza Altamira over this last month. What’s the best way to...
Notes on the Venezuelan Media Blackout
In a recent nationwide broadcast of a Peace Summit between the Government and some opposition people (none of the actors involved in the current crisis attended), Venevisión’s Carlos...
The quotable revolution
(A guest post by friend-of-the-blog Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez) It’s amazing how little of the truly delicious ridiculousness spouted by the regime’s members gets noticed abroad, isn’t it? Since the...
Nullifying the Constitution, One Article at a Time
Here’s one that’s flying under the radar: in a resolution dated February 13th, the government-controlled Supreme Tribunal gave itself the authority to decide which specific judge will hear...
Twenty-five years of hatred
Desde la puerta de ‘La Crónica’ Santiago mira la avenida Tacna, sin amor: automóviles, edificios desiguales y descoloridos, esqueletos de avisos luminosos flotando en la neblina, el mediodía...
Taming the shadow
These tumultuous days, as I was glued to Twitter, reading Facebook comments, listening to opinions on the street, and watching the students debate on CNNE, I finally “understood”...
Fighting poverty by keeping people poor
When Hugo Chávez was alive, sometimes, in his rare bouts of sanity, he made it sound as if the Revolution really had good intentions. “Socialism”, he would say,...
Busting the myth of democracy in Venezuela
(Note: for this piece, we recruited economist Richard Obuchi.) FACT: on February 18, 2014, after a week of intense anti-government demonstrations all across the country, President Maduro attended a rally...
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