The Grapes of Nostalgia
This year, for our traditional New Year’s Eve dinner, I’ll be the only person art the table who won’t finish his grapes before midnight.
This year, for our traditional New Year’s Eve dinner, I’ll be the only person art the table who won’t finish his grapes before midnight.
For the final part of my 2017 digest, we watch as the Constituyente enforces its power, as the political opposition shoots itself in the foot and as we enter full-blown economic catastrophe.
Your daily briefing for Saturday, December 30, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
My second digest of 2017 in Caracas Chronicles goes from the protests in their maximum splendor, to their disgraceful end in August, as daily tragedies continue to play out.
To close out the year, here’s the first part of my selection of all the best Caracas Chronicles had to offer. From social inertia to upfront conflict, this is how we opened (and fought through) 2017.
Your daily briefing fo Friday, December 29, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
As Delcy Rodríguez humiliates recently released political prisoners by carefully erasing their experiences, we meditate on the perverts’ fraught relationship with the truth.
There are many political prisoners we don’t know about, whose families have no access to the press, neglected in the anonymity of group arrests, unreported for fear of reprisal. This is a brief description of their tragedies, divided into the groups in which they were released.
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