From Demilitarization to Red Berets
President Maduro recently announced the National Police (PNB) would be restructured to “recover its original vision and impetus” . This should be a big deal: PNB is a...
Life
The Night Alicia Machado Swung a U.S. Election
Five years ago if someone had told you that the most consequential moment in a U.S. presidential debate would involve a Venezuelan public figure, what are the chances you would have guessed that figure would be Alicia Machado?
When you need two and a half years and $3.2 billion to recover the capacity you've lost in six months
After wasting precious trying to get a Colombian trucking company to drill oil wells, PDVSA signs a minimally credible deal to stanch the production hemorrhage.
In the Name of Urban Agriculture, Maduro Adds Fuel to the Inflationary Fire
The latest encroachment of Nicolás Maduro over the Central Bank threatens to unleash a wave of inflation… In the name of matas de paracetamol
Big Time
Francisco Toro, who founded and runs this gig, just landed an exclusive post as contributing columnist for the Washington Post's Global Opinions website.
Defenseless
Tarek William Saab — the officer charged by the Constitution with defending Venezuelans' human rights — disgraces his office on what is now a now daily basis.
The Real Legado: A Global Byword for Failure
From Chigüire Bipolar premise to real news story in two years: the press in Nigeria starts to fret about looming Venezuelanization.
The Government's Basic Problem in One Simple Video
We talk about the limits of a repressive strategy in sustaining a government with no authority, and it all sounds kind of vague. But really, it isn't hard. It's simple. Crushingly Simple.
Floral Update
The narconephews explicitly trafficked (heh) on their family connections to gain street cred with the DEA agents they thought they were selling to.
Letter to 2056: What Inflation Feels Like
As part of our sporadic series — The View From 2056 — we send a letter to the future, trying to explain to a not-yet-born grandchild what it felt like to live through the inflation of 2016.
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