#AutogolpeReax: What the papers say
South American papers pretty much all led with the self-coup in Venezuela yesterday. Here's a roundup.
South American papers pretty much all led with the self-coup in Venezuela yesterday. Here's a roundup.
Venezuela doesn’t have any serious legal problems, other than the fact that it doesn’t have an executive branch, doesn’t have a legislative branch, and doesn’t have a judicial branch.
This is a video of regime stalwart Luisa Ortega Diaz, Venezuela's Prosecutor General. Denouncing a breakdown in the constitutional order. To sustained applause. On State Television!
Your briefing for for Friday, March 31, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
We chart the shockwaves from this week's historic, dismal Supreme Tribunal rulings, as the opposition and the hemisphere try to get their bearings in the strange new reality we face after we drilled through the bottom of the last pit.
It's quite unfortunate that El Comandante's reaction to a dissolution of the AN is way more forceful than MUD's. #SalganDeSuBorrachera.
Yesterday, the Supreme Tribunal, for all intents and purposes. shut down Venezuela's National Assembly. Speaking on Cesar Miguel Rondón's radio show this morning, AD's Henry Ramos Allup gave the most cogent explanation yet of what happened.
Bloomberg tracked down Michael Hudson, Maduro's new favourite economist. Turns out he's not quite as enamoured of Maduro as Maduro is of him.
The Supreme Tribunal of Justice basically annulled Venezuela's Legislature. Another day, another coup d'Etat.
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