¿Qué está pasando en Ecuador? [UPDATE]
A dispatch from our guy in Ecuador, as exit polls start pouring in.
A dispatch from our guy in Ecuador, as exit polls start pouring in.
Your briefing for Sunday, April 2, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
This week’s bizarre constitutional crisis has been many things. Here’s one we tend to overlook: it’s been a stomach-churning desecration of the resource nationalism that once defined the Venezuelan left.
Did Venezuela just stumble into an epic Constitutional Crisis out of sheer administrative incompetence and miscalculation? Very possibly. Were the Russians behind it? You bet.
Investors in Venezuelan debt were already nervous over the upcoming April 12th maturity. The TSJ power grab sent them into panic-selling mode and set the stage for a weekend of uncertainty.
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