This Time, It's Different
There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.
There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.
I went door knocking for Voluntad Popular in El Calvario, a shantytown in municipio El Hatillo. People asked about our political prisoners by first name, like they're friends from down the street.
Nicolás Maduro cut a lonely figure in Plaza Caracas yesterday. What does it mean that his ministers don't even bother to force their civil servants to walk a few blocks to listen to his speeches anymore?
The run up to 1S has laid it bare: Venezuela is no longer a country of two roughly equal halves. Everybody seems to have grasped this, except MUD.
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, August 31, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
It's easy to lose sight of it in the heat of the moment, and given the pervasive cynicism of the zeitgeist. But the fight against this military dictatorship is just as suffused with heroism as the last.
The sight of the dictatorship closing ranks against its newest political prisoner, Yon Goicoechea, on the basis of planted evidence is profoundly enraging.
Your daily briefing for Tuesday, August 30, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
VP leader Yon Goicoechea is the latest victim of the government’s Cuban-style preventive repression rampage in the run-up to September 1st.
Anabella Abadi and Carlos García-Soto wrote the book on Venezuela's price controls. Spanning nine decades of economic folly, it's a labour of love. Literally.
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