They're Surrounded
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, June 8th, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
The Deal These Two Rejected: LL + TSJ for No RR
The government tried to persuade the opposition to give up on a Recall Referendum in return for a balanced Supreme Tribunal Constitutional Chamber and freeing political prisoners. Capriles and López said 'no way.'
La Tierra Tiembla
Your daily briefing for Tuesday, June 7th, 2016. Translated by Javier Liendo.
In One Way, God Does Provide
Reuters' Alexandra Ulmer has a piece on how the mango went from seasonal treat to lifeline in Venezuela.
Your Stories
We asked you to put a face to the crisis by sharing your stories with us. So here it is: real stories, from real Venezuelans.
A Moratorium on the Isms
Socialism doesn't work. We know that. End of debate. Is it? No. It is not.
Shipwrecked
I know what it's like in La Sabana. I know you can lose yourself, and you can't quite imagine that there's anything else beyond that Dionysian ritual. I know.
Keiko: The Doorstop Candidate
Keiko Fujimori is a paradox of a wedge politician: a conservative loathed by the rich and adored by the poor, she bring with her all the baggage of her authoritarian father. But she also brings a sensible economic plan, and the political capital to carry it through.
PPK: The Peruvian Antidote to Populism?
Perú votes for president today, and polls suggest Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a 77 year old technocrat, could pull off the unlikeliest of upsets. We take a closer look at Peru's anti-anti-politician.
"Like those people who win the lottery and go bankrupt within a year..."
Joanna Hausmann (yes relation) has a rant with a difference this week. As a five minute introduction to Venezuela for the curious-but-clueless, it's hard to do better.
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