Death is better than help
Your daily briefing for Monday, December 4, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Your daily briefing for Monday, December 4, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Venezuela’s disappointing performance at the 2017 Bolivarian Games provokes serious questions, but a very controversial firing has overshadowed the entire discussion.
Chávez's foreign policy looked to cement 21st Century Socialism as the ideological pillar of the region through a costly and aggressive "oil diplomacy." A glance back at the state of Venezuelan international affairs in 2011 shows that alliances are fragile when they are built on opportunism.
Your Daily Briefing for Sunday, December 3, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Photo: PolítiKa UCAB In 2010, Chávez dons the Marxist-Christian garb. For the first time, people started banging pots in protest during his speech in a public event in...
The voracious expropriations and nationalization of industries - big and small - laid the groundwork for our current economic landscape of shortages, destruction, and a private sector that barely continues to exist.
The monetary aggregates and statistics mean nothing to Carolina. All she knows is that when the time comes to buy vegetables, the idea of buying a whole kilo of something is an extravagance she can't afford.
Few men have been as powerful in Venezuela as former oil czar Rafael Ramírez. Now that he’s a target in the latest chavista purge, let’s remember why he should never have our sympathy.
The year of the Constitutional Amendment Referendum brought a sobering reminder of the threat that indefinite reelection posed to a flailing democracy. The political opposition answered with a platform named after its chimera: Unity.
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