The Assembly's plan to approve a new law on Recall Referendums to expedite the whole process? You didn't seriously think chavismo would allow that, did you?

The budget and scope of Maduro's surveillance operation is enough to make a convicted Colombian hacker, and the media that covers this story, blush.

The so called "Operaciones de Liberación del Pueblo" are just old fashioned police raids. A new HRW/PROVEA reports detail the abuses committed in their name.

In his latest Sobremesa, Juan asks whether we should be focusing on solutions instead of problems when it comes to effective regime change in 2016, namely, getting rid of the current TSJ.

Events off the pitch show how our country's crisis has been expressed in football.

The Economist is already drawing comparisons between Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

Your no-BS breakdown on the latest Datanalisis poll, which is basically quantified doom-and-gloom.

Chavismo always claimed that Social Inclusion was a winning bet. They were right!

PDVSA will probably have to pay three times what it will get for a murky operation that has analysts befuddled. To the Venezuelan government, this all makes perfect sense.

In a move that Maduro considers an affront to freedom of speech, Mauricio Macri drops Telesur from Argentina's domestic programming grid and spends public money on more worthwhile endeavors.

A raise in bus fare is the latest grievance that Venezuelans have added to their list of reasons for protesting, and the Government should've seen this coming.

Love it or hate it, Caracas' subway system is a daily reminder of what an adventure life in Venezuela has become.

While the rest of the world gets serious about climate change, Venezuela's political class is asleep at the switch. At the very least, we need a plan.

Once upon a time, back when oil was still in triple digits, Semana Santa was a populist bacchanalia. Take a trip down memory lane to the "good times."

La Vinotinto has played four qualifiers for Russia 2018 and lost all of them. Nul points! As they take on Peru today, can they turn it around?

Reports of a big DoJ investigation into money laundering in Switzerland confirms what we'd all figured: a major U.S. investigation into Derwick is ongoing.

For Jorge Castañeda, nothing that's been happening in Venezuela is the least bit anomalous from a regional point of view.

Here's dreaming of the day the Estadio Universitario hosts the kind of baseball game that can put useless old conflicts to rest.

Miguel Rodríguez Torres has started blurting out the kinds of things that good, loyal chavista faction heads like this are never ever supposed to say in public.

What do you need to round off your no-running-water, blacked out, crime-infested, Toilet Paper-less Easter break? Crocodiles!

Sumito Estévez wants to persuade you Margarita is a swell place to vacation in 2016. In doing so, he makes himself an accomplice to an outright swindle.

When is the opposition going to get over the taboo that surrounds the obvious need to privatize underperforming state-owned utilities?

Commmunicational hegenomy is real, and Valencia's El Carabobeño is the latest of many victims killed along the way.

Is shutting down the whole country because you don't have enough water in the hydroelectric dams normal? No...no it is not.