Venezuela's MERCOSUR Days are Numbered
As the trade block prepares to suspend Venezuela for failing to implement any of its accession obligations, the government doesn't even seem to care.
As the trade block prepares to suspend Venezuela for failing to implement any of its accession obligations, the government doesn't even seem to care.
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, November 30, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Last week, Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni was barred from appointing her own counsel at a disciplinary tribunal to eject her from the bench. A bizarre injustice, but entirely in keeping with the kafkaesque seven year ordeal she has faced.
It's not just that Trump and Maduro have a disturbing tendency to believe things that are plainly false, it's that they turf out their understanding of the world to obvious charlatans.
As the bolivar goes into free fall, we mark an especially poignant milestone: the brief instant the bolivar reached 1-to-1 parity with the Colombian peso, before rocketing right past it.
Your daily briefing for Tuesday, November 29, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
As massacres become a weekly event in Venezuela, mass graves are crafting a new abnormal normality, rendering empathy impossible and dehumanizing us little by little.
Your daily briefing for Monday, November 28th, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
On the ride from Barquisimeto to Cúcuta I met another Venezuela: on the move, on a lark. The people on the bus with me look to Colombia for food, for toiletries, for jobs and a future and the scarcest good of all: hope.
Has any other Latin American done as much damage in a single lifetime as Fidel Castro? It's...not even close.
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