Diosdado Cabello’s National Assembly seems determined to keep plumbing new depths. Yesterday’s session, culminating in this extraordinary homophobic tirade against Henrique Capriles’s chief of staff at the Miranda...
We’ve provided a soundtrack to accompany your reading of this post: Supreme Evil Overlord President of the National Assembly Diosdado Cabello giddily announced on Twitter yesterday that...
Wow! I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this site before. The concept behind SoloPromesas.com is disarmingly simple: the site aggregates promises made publicly by various office-holders in Venezuela...
Last week, 97 irregular armed groups in Caracas (known as colectivos – roughly, left-wing paramilitaries) announced they would surrender their weapons in order to join the government-sponsored Movement for...
It’s probably wisest to resist drawing any wider inferences from the refinery fire in Puerto La Cruz yesterday. Silly though it sounds, it really is true that sometimes...
Here’s The Economist’s recent article on corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela, in graphical form…
So there’s a strong rumor circulating that tomorrow will be the grand day in which super lame (duck) Mayor of Chacao Emilio Graterón announces his candidacy for reelection...
The question now is what will collapse sooner: Venezuelans’ confidence in the government or the opposition’s confidence in MUD’s leadership. I think of it as a kind of...
So it’s Wednesday morning in the International Office of the MUD and I’m walking in, bleary eyed, heading straight to the coffee pot for my requisite 8:00 a.m....
As expected, the TSJ’s Constitutional Chamber has thrown out Henrique Capriles’s legal challenge to the 14-A presidential election. 24 hours earlier, Capriles had announced that he would not wait...
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