Is Our Fate the Same as Cuba’s?
The irony is embarrassing: in a family of professional political commentators and rabid whiskey-chugging, fortune-telling pundits, it was my Prados-del-Este hypochondriac grandmama who was the most foreboding.
M.A. in Economics from the University of Edinburgh. Madrid based. Wealth management, roots in banking and microfinance. Voracious reader of Classics, specially the Russians, and History. Caraqueño and Caraquista, inescapably a lover of Salsa, wheat talk and Rum. Fascinated by South America's indigestion of modernity, owes his political understanding mostly to Octavio Paz, Ivan Karamazov and dad.
The irony is embarrassing: in a family of professional political commentators and rabid whiskey-chugging, fortune-telling pundits, it was my Prados-del-Este hypochondriac grandmama who was the most foreboding.
We tend to think resisting a populist is like boxing: a question of punching him harder than he punches you. It's not. It's like judo: the much subtler, trickier art of turning his strength against him.
The people who run Venezuela didn't "rise" to power. They found power pre-stolen, in the form of a state organized around a single man who's no longer there.
I sat down to ask my father about the Caracazo, about what he remembered and why he thought it happened. I was eager for answers...but not as eager as he was.
The end of the state's monopoly over the legitimate use of violence does not imply the end of the government; it implies the end of the state.
Your no-BS breakdown on the latest Datanalisis poll, which is basically quantified doom-and-gloom.
Watching El Conejo's funeral, the brutal reality of Venezuelan state failure hits home in full. As I searched for some explanation for the debacle, I came to see Octavio Paz understood a thing or two about its deep roots.
Andrés Rondón's deep dive into an instant classic of Marxist-Dadaist Economic doctrine.
Henrique Capriles' victory press conference was disturbing on many levels. "Disturbed" is not how we want to feel after an historic win.
What if we wake up on 7D to a dystopian nightmare where Diosdado Cabello has all the money and all the power?
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