La Tierra Tiembla
Your daily briefing for Tuesday, June 7th, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Your daily briefing for Tuesday, June 7th, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Reuters' Alexandra Ulmer has a piece on how the mango went from seasonal treat to lifeline in Venezuela.
We asked you to put a face to the crisis by sharing your stories with us. So here it is: real stories, from real Venezuelans.
Socialism doesn't work. We know that. End of debate. Is it? No. It is not.
I know what it's like in La Sabana. I know you can lose yourself, and you can't quite imagine that there's anything else beyond that Dionysian ritual. I know.
Keiko Fujimori is a paradox of a wedge politician: a conservative loathed by the rich and adored by the poor, she bring with her all the baggage of her authoritarian father. But she also brings a sensible economic plan, and the political capital to carry it through.
Perú votes for president today, and polls suggest Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a 77 year old technocrat, could pull off the unlikeliest of upsets. We take a closer look at Peru's anti-anti-politician.
Joanna Hausmann (yes relation) has a rant with a difference this week. As a five minute introduction to Venezuela for the curious-but-clueless, it's hard to do better.
To kick off the Centennial Copa America today, we take a trip across Venezuela to survey the state of our stadium infrastructure and hopefully get a morale boost along the way.
Randomly invalidated forms, impossible standards, arbitrary obstacles...take a tour of the Electoral Council's idiotic signature validation process with me.
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