The longest election
One year ago today, Nicolás Maduro was elected President of Venezuela. One year ago, Henrique Capriles was elected President of Venezuela, and Nicolás Maduro stole the election. It’s...
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Perceptions of a crime wave
Venezuela’s Tourism Minister Andrés Izarra (infamous for having laughed about Venezuela’s high death rates on an international cable show in 2010), recently had this to say “[la inseguridad] es un problema real,...
PANINI-nomics in Venezuela
Over the past two weeks, Venezuelans have poured into the streets, but not simply to protest. Throngs are desperately trying to get the officially licensed sticker albums of this year’s...
A Night of Epistemic Closure
First, a confession: I did not watch last night’s misnamed “dialogue”. I didn’t need to. Nor did anyone else. There was no point. We all knew exactly how it...
Live-blogging the peace talks
5:00: scheduled time to start 6:10 Not yet started… 8:11 Starting. Maduro introduces those present starting with MUD folks. 8:14 setting is a big table with Maduro at the end. We...
Dialogue, actually.
Spoiler alert: The outcome of today's talks will be precisely the outcome the government will allow the opposition to have: that they shut up, give thanks, and go back to their daily business of not mattering.
First point of dialogue: what is the Constitution?
Chavistas insist on making life really difficult for those of us who want to support dialogue. The Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Ricardo Patiño, said some seemingly innocuous things today that,...
Telenovela politics, by @SimpataXKingKon
Ibsen Martínez is a Venezuelan playwright and essayist who needs no introductions. His latest OpEd for the New York Times links the Spear murders, telenovela productions, Teodoro Petkoff, and scarcity...
On a wing and a prayer
The ongoing saga between international airlines and the Venezuelan government continues. Just when you thought airlines were going to get their money, the government is now suggesting they...
More Deynas, Fewer Carlas
On Thursday, March 27th, in Costa Rica, the girls from the Vinotinto U-17 made history. The faced Canada, a formidable foe, in the World Cup U-17 in the quarter...
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