The Student Movement's Mission Impossible
The Movimiento Estudiantil can't be what it was in 2007. But maybe we could even be more.
The Movimiento Estudiantil can't be what it was in 2007. But maybe we could even be more.
What do you get if you add a completely controllable and vaccinable disease plus Venezuela’s health system? Chaos, wild tropical chaos, Guayana style.
So it's supposed to be my job to help you figure out what the Trump presidency [[[deep shudder]]] will mean for Venezuela. Except I can't do my job, because trying to predict how Donald Trump will behave in any give context is a lost cause.
The people who run Venezuela didn't "rise" to power. They found power pre-stolen, in the form of a state organized around a single man who's no longer there.
Your daily briefing for Monday, November 7th, 2016. Brought to you by Eddy.
The recent spike in the black market dollar has taken some by surprise. It shouldn't have: the minute we heard Maduro talking about messing with the banks' reserve requirement to fund "urban agriculture", we reached for our wallets.
A Facebook post on Alejandro Velasco's wall sends me into a deep reverie, as I realize "wait, half the people who read Caracas Chronicles probably don't remember what the early Chávez years were like."
Your Holiness, dialogue is the search of consensus through reason between people. The quid of our dilemma is this: we want to be considered "people"again.
We’ve been able to hang on for 22 years in one of the craziest media landscapes in the world. We’ve seen different media outlets in Venezuela (and abroad) closing shop, something we’re looking to avoid at all costs. Your collaboration goes a long way in helping us weather the storm.
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