Farándula is the Priority
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, October 5, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, October 5, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
A tour into the mind of Julia Buxton, flag-bearer for a strain of the European left that's now ready to accept that chavismo is a disaster, but not ready to stop hating Venezuelans who've said all along chavismo is a disaster.
For years, Venezuelan budgets have been a "saludo a la bandera" - a purely pro-forma affair. Now Nicolás Maduro tells us he can't be bothered to do even that.
For Venezuelans, the way the Chinese state elite thinks about its massive Oil-for-Loan deal with us can be a bit of a black box. This summer, two academics at a leading Chinese think tank peeled back the curtain...and we take a look.
The less Venezuelans say about the vote in Colombia yesterday, the better. But let's be clear: some of the Transititonal Justice issues they'll be dealing with are coming down the pike at us, too.
Our resident Colombian reflects on a day that shattered his hopes for his country's future.
If you can't read Spanish, you're cut off from the full dadaist zaniness that official propaganda has reached in Venezuela. Here's a taste, translated from the latest issue of the hilariously weird word-salad collection known as the CLAP Magazine.
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