Laundering With Gold
Your daily briefing for Monday, August 27, 2018. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Your daily briefing for Monday, August 27, 2018. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Everyone’s worried about the consequences that Maduro’s paquetazo will unleash upon the Venezuelan economy. People calling this plan, which will surely fail, neoliberal are either irresponsible or ignorant.
It depends on when you left, it depends on where you are and if you’re happy there. We all know why people leave Venezuela, but it’s mostly slow and difficult to start calling that new place “home”.
Your daily briefing for Thursday, August 25, 2018. Translated by Javier Liendo.
#BoardingPaz. Entradas a un país migrante is a multimedia conference that centers around the issues Venezuelan immigrants face all around the world. How do we relate to the immigration process and phenomenon? But most importantly: how do we talk about it?
Turns out, it’s not only chavistas who remain in denial, who alter and distort reality or have trouble admitting and dealing with facts and existing, real life problems. Now, these problems extend to opposition leaders and citizens, too.
It’s not really true that the academic literature extensively documents the futility of electoral boycotts. Believing it does makes it dead easy for the government to divide the opposition.
A national strike seems like a good way to demonstrate how people feel about the new set of economic measures imposed by Maduro last week. But when people are left stranded in a broken economy, and they desperately need money to eat, a strike doesn’t seem like the adequate protest.
Your daily briefing for Thursday, August 23, 2018. Translated by Javier Liendo.
In Venezuela, those who should theoretically live in a magic bubble against the crisis, have stories of resistance. Here’s the case of a banker who hasn’t gotten hold of cash in a long, long time.
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