No government can feel easy going to an election with inflation running at 85% per month. But even if Henri Falcón wins the April vote, the transition that follows will be organized entirely around the losers' needs.
After the dialogue collapsed in the Dominican Republic today, the government decided to move ahead with "elections" on their own terms. (Hence, the scare-quotes.)
Oil industry workers in Anaco don’t show up to work anymore. Why risk life and limb for salaries that just won’t put food on the table anymore?
Primero Justicia failed to collect enough signatures to retain official party status last weekend. Activists were trying to recover from those days, but last night the CNE said they wouldn't get a second chance.
Security and intelligence agencies are enforcing the Anti-Hate Law, even though it stems from an illegitimate institution. First they went for protesters, now a Cumaná newspaper became the first in its kind to be under investigation.
We have been focusing on the government’s dictatorial nature for so long, we might have been missing one important circumstance: what if, when observing carefully, we found similar trends in the opposition, too?
Caraqueños dealing with faulty and slow points-of-sale should know: it’s even worse in the rest of the country. Having cash may mean you’ll afford dinner, since prices are cheaper if you pay cash.
Diosdado Cabello’s multi-year crusade to render Voluntad Popular into a forgotten footnote in Venezuelan history looks maddeningly close to success.
In a sign of things to come, the regime bars the opposition coalition from appearing in April's ballot just hours after VP took itself out of contention, as well.
For years, chavismo fed the old canard about poor people being forced to eat dog food before the revolution came. It was a lie...until they made it true.
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