teleSUR vs. the poor
Founded on a promise to cover the news from the perspective of the underprivileged, teleSUR today does precisely the opposite: spinning the Venezuelan crisis away with an editorial line that drips with contempt for the poor.
Too Toxic for Pablo Iglesias?
Even Pablo Iglesias, whose political party, Podemos, appears to have risen out of irrelevance on the back of chavista payments, is backing away from Maduro. That tells you something, doesn't it?
Chavismo Forfeits the Fight Over the Economic Emergency Decree
Friday morning, for the first time, the New Majority in the National Assembly asserted its institutional power, refusing to pass Maduro’s half-baked Economic Emergency Decree.
LVL: Three-Handed Economist
Is Venezuela headed for gridlock, cohabitation or violence? In DC this week, Luis Vicente León of Datanalisis laid out his scenarios.
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