Kicking the Table
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, January 24, 2018. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, January 24, 2018. Translated by Javier Liendo.
It wouldn’t be the first time an overconfident authoritarian government pushed forward into an election they were certain they couldn’t possible lose… and lost.
Today, we celebrate the day democracy was born in our country. 60 years on, we keep trying to find reasons to celebrate it. So far, we haven't found many.
There are lots of good reasons for chavismo to want to rush a presidential vote: Getting ahead of a worsening economy. Taking advantage of a listless opposition. Playing on opposition splits. Leveraging our distrust of elections.
The early bird catches the presidency. An announcement of presidential elections before April 30th, without minimum guarantees of fairness, scrambles an already scrambled political scene.
With hyperinflation raging, wage-rises in Venezuela now lag so far behind normal people can't afford to turn up to work. At what point does that turn from curiosity to system-threatening crisis?
Your daily briefing for Tuesday, January 23, 2018. Translated by Javier Liendo.
When he was alive, half of the Venezuelan opposition thought Óscar Pérez was a chavista plant, the other half that he was a bit of a joke. His death —and the desecration of his body— have turned him in death into his dream: a real threat for the government.
In Germany in the 1930s, a journalist took to collecting and curating people’s nightmares. I reflect on the terrible relevance that project has for Venezuelans today.
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