We have learned nothing [UPDATE]
As Venezuela slides deeper into the dictatorial morass, the protest movement is setting off a major political crisis. It just happens that that crisis isn’t inside the government, it’s...
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Integration to spur democracy vs. non-Democrats peddling non-integration
In her memoir The Downing Street Years, Margaret Thatcher talks extensively about the evolution of the European Community, now the European Union. In discussing the obstruction of Greece...
No soap for you!!
Watch what happens when a Venezuelan woman tries to buy soap two days in a row. Turns out that, in Venezuela, you can indeed be too clean. Fancy scanners...
Repression with a Brazilian scent
One of the constant images of the current wave of protests has been the overwhelming and excessive use of tear gas by the National Guard and other security...
F-Rod Pitches a Rabo'e'Cochino
Every few months, Francisco Rodríguez lobs a conceptual hand-grenade at the center of the opposition Conventional Wisdom about the Venezuelan economy. The series of papers he’s written for...
Blackouts have not gone away
Venezuela plunged into an electricity crisis in 2009, one that has seen an endless amount of blackouts and hundreds of promises from the government to fix the state-owned...
Happy Monday, everyone!
Warning – don’t watch this before having your Monday morning coffee. I’m just gonna refrain from commenting on this one because I think y’all can do a much...
All because of a broken fingernail
(A reader sends us this translation of an interview with Marvinia Jiménez that appeared in El Carabobeño, a Valencia daily, a few weeks ago. Marvinia was brutally attacked...
That feeling that, I imagine, you feel when you’re cornered and you feel you’re about to be killed
Today, at 3:27 pm, saw the start of a Cadena de Radio y TV. Nicolás Maduro speaks to pro-government students at a meeting in Avenida Universidad in Caracas....
“Ese sentimiento, que me puedo imaginar, que siente alguien que va a ser asesinado y se ve acorralado."
Esta tarde, a las 3:27pm, arranca una Cadena de Radio y TV. Nicolás Maduro habla a los estudiantes oficialistas desde la Avenida Universidad en Caracas. En sus casi...
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