How to Become a Pariah State
As the government escalates repression ahead of September 1st's protests, the hemispheric consensus that Maduro has gone too far is hardening.
As the government escalates repression ahead of September 1st's protests, the hemispheric consensus that Maduro has gone too far is hardening.
I was on The Economics Detective podcast the other day, talking about everything from the Caracazo to Alfredo Serrano. It was good fun.
I don’t write briefings on weekends. This exception is bitter. In addition to the significant number of soldiers being mobilized —with all their instruments of war— to Caracas, the...
The book club moves forward with Rodrigo y la primera mitad de la obra de Carlos Rangel: “Del Buen Salvaje al Buen Revolucionario”. Como el libro es en castellano, lo discutimos en castellano.
As SEBIN thugs bang on Daniel Ceballos's door at 3 in the morning and trundle him off to jail, it's hard to shake the sense that the government has fully embraced its Pariah State status.
Your Daily Briefing for Saturday, August 16, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Pointing out any of the 16 cases of corruption Adán Chávez is involved in is now illegal for the press in Barinas State. Prior restraint much?
It was a heady mixture of patria, red paranoia, and Bolivarian surrealism: how taking a picture of a busy, million-times-photographed Caracas landmark got us in trouble not with normal beat cops, mind you, but with Military friggin’ Counterintelligence.
Your daily briefing for Friday, August 26, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
We mourn the passing of a gentle, tough, uncompromising example to Venezuelan women and generations to come.
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