Could killing the 2016 recall break the chavista coalition?
We tend to overestimate chavismo's room for maneuver. But killing the 2016 recall puts huge strain on the pro-government coalition. If it didn't, they would've done it months ago.
We tend to overestimate chavismo's room for maneuver. But killing the 2016 recall puts huge strain on the pro-government coalition. If it didn't, they would've done it months ago.
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, August 10, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Today's announcement kills the prospect of an early presidential election following a recall vote, since a late January 2017 recall would leave Maduro's vice-president to close out his term.
Will no one point to the Elephant in the Room in the Chávez-Trump comparisons?
Who wins when Venny bonds tank? This Crónica Imaginaria (read: fiction) challenges you to think it through.
Your daily briefing for Tuesday, August 9, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Anatoly Kurmanaev dives deep into the basis of Alfredo Serrano's death-grip over economic policy-making. What he finds is...genuinely upsetting.
About once a month, Raúl Stolk channels Naky over on The Daily Beast.
If the government is going to flat out refuse even minimal market-led reforms, we're better off with a soviet-style Central Plan than with no economic coordination at all.
There are two options when confronting Caracazo: digesting it, or spitting it out. Either we see it as an Estallido Social of shortsightedness and savage chaos, or as the awareness-creating moment of a massive political movement against imperialist neoliberalism. Two readings, two Venezuelas.
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