A Crisis on Two Clocks
In a lot of ways, 2016 feels like 2002. The difference is the economy, a disaster teetering on the edge of catastrophe that injects a powerful new source of uncertainty and volatility into an already explosive situation.
In a lot of ways, 2016 feels like 2002. The difference is the economy, a disaster teetering on the edge of catastrophe that injects a powerful new source of uncertainty and volatility into an already explosive situation.
Some people still think a softly-softly approach can cajole chavismo into playing nice. Thankfully, Henry Ramos understands this is a fight for primate dominance, and the last thing you can afford to do is show weakness.
El Club de Libros de Caracas Chronicles sigue creciendo. Para nuestra segunda edición, vamos con Patria o Muerte, la nueva novela de Alberto Barrera Tyszka. En español.
On Dia de los Inocentes, Latin America's version of April Fools, I joked PSUV would ask the Supreme Tribunal to declare everything the National Assembly does pre-emptively unconstitutional. That was ten days ago. Today. It happened.
Andrés Rondón's deep dive into an instant classic of Marxist-Dadaist Economic doctrine.
"Say, Mr. Bus Driver, why are you speeding toward that cliff?"
With Luis Salas's appointment as economics Vice-president, the radicals have won a decisive victory in the fight to dictate economic policy. Their ascent could mean the deepening of the economic crisis and the descent into hyperinflation, hastening the end of Maduro as well.
While Maduro speaks, a strange situation is developing outside the National Assembly. Vicepresident Aristóbulo Istúriz – Anzoategui State Governor and old time Causa R organizer made Vice-President. Very bright guy....
Possibly the worst part of the MUD's baffling, retrograde decision to have not a single woman in an AN leadership position is that it forced us to agree with Tania friggin' Diaz.
We tend to ask what one thing the new National Assembly should focus on first. But the new AN will need to do 15 things at once, and all of them well.
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