Why Always Bolívar?
The bolivarian myth has always been about securing the legitimacy of rulers who would be on thin ice without it.
Local Warming
Climate change in Venezuela means less water to drink, irrigate crops and generate electricity. Are we ready? No. Are we getting ready? No.
Subsidizing Fuel: Still The Worst of Our Policies
The Boston Globe shows why Fuel Subsidies are a global problem, and why Venezuela urgently needs to quit fooling around and end its own.
Clash of powers...but not as you know it.
With CNE now officially asking the Supreme Tribunal to dismiss challenges over null voting, a whole new kind of "conflicto de poderes" looms.
Sooner Than You Think
Mark your calendars, folks. By 2023, the bottom could fall out of the oil market...permanently.
Amendment or recall? The answer is both.
MUD is set to announce its chosen path forward for getting rid of Maduro. To choose between a recall referendum and an amendment reducing his term in office would be a mistake.
The Opposite of Constitutional
The Supreme Tribunal outdoes itself once more with a decision on the National Assembly's oversight powers that would have made George Orwell proud.
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