Inflation's Wellbeing
Your daily briefing for Friday, October 28, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo
Your daily briefing for Friday, October 28, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo
In a startlingly forthright Open Letter to Pope Francis that refuses to softball the gravity of the situation, HRW's José Manuel Vivancos walks the Vatican through how to avoid another fiasco.
Yesterday in Caracas, the opposition wasn't just marching. It was telling its leaders how to march.
Watching him terrorize his opponents from a TV studio, it's easy to forget Diosdado Cabello is technically just another backbench MP.
I stopped to buy a loose cigarette in Sabana Grande yesterday and gazed into the face of learned helplessness. MUD, don't let us down.
The clip from Táchira lasts 26 seconds. A kid gets right up — RIGHT up — in a riot cop's face. What follows...crystallizes the volcanic fury and the deep humanity behind Venezuela's protest movement in a way no staged moment ever could.
Away from the big march in Caracas today, a day of violence throughout Venezuela as armed chavista civilian groups collude with the forces of order to intimidate and attack opposition marchers.
In Mérida, the tight cooperation between chavista armed groups and the security forces today was blatant, and we have the videos to prove it.
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