Better by Miracle
Your daily briefing for Friday, July 22, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Your daily briefing for Friday, July 22, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
It's weird enough that cellphones weren't already banned in Venezuelan prisons, but weirder still that Nicolás decided to sign an AN-drafted law on the matter.
We're keeping track of lynchings and lootings in the country. Since we last updated the map in April food riots and lootings have gone from sparse occurrences to widespread unrest all across the country.
Sembrar el Petroleo turned 80 years old last week, and with it, our obsession with diversifying away from oil. What if we set that to one side for the next 80 years and focus on people, instead?
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, July 20, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
The most important political move of the last few weeks is also the one we know the least about.
As desperate Venezuelans flock to Colombia to buy groceries, I muse on 21st Century Socialism's iron clad determination to repeat every mistake 20th Century Socialism made.
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