Venezuela Needs to Finally Unlearn Extraction
Over generations, the State was hollowed out into something to loot. National rebuilding requires radical institutional transformation
Two months after the law’s passing, Venezuelan courts will no longer receive amnesty applications. Over 470 political prisoners are still being held.
Chavismo always knew how to maneuver politics to produce convenient international headlines, leaving out the small print that really matters. The Rodríguez regime is doing it again
Chavismo would dismantle its main weapons by releasing all political prisoners and shutting down the sites where they’re held. Let’s see how that goes
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The amnesty law though which Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez seek to simulate a political opening does more to shield repressors than to deliver justice
We have often spoken in Venezuela about how someone is changing everything so that nothing changes. Perhaps this has never been truer than now
Only her presence in Venezuela, and the resumption of normal politics, can show that power is no longer purely discretionary
Machado said she will go back for a new election. Will Venezuelans in Spain follow?
Francisco Herrera Luque’s sprawling novel about the Venezuelan elite was not only a bestseller: it helped shape a vision of the past that persists in our time
After lots of pressure and little debate, an insufficient Amnesty Law was approved unanimously by Delcy's National Assembly