Goldbuggered
Remember the big show the government put on to bring home the nation's gold reserves? Yup, they've started selling those now.
Life
Gumersindo Rodríguez, 1933-2015
In his memory, we reprint the profile of him published in The New York Times on September 2nd, 1975.
Venezuela elected to UN Human Rights Council (again)
Proving once more that the U.N. is immune to irony (and ridicule), Venezuela has again been tapped to pass judgment on other countries' human rights records.
How Admissions Test Populism is Killing La Simón
By hijacking the university's admissions system, the Sistema Nacional de Ingreso sabotages the Universidad Simón Bolívar's longstanding mission of becoming an engine for social mobility.
López Prosecutor Apologizes (but is still a POS).
A WSJ interview shed some more light into Franklin Nieves's defection from violating human rights.
Nieves the Victim
Leopoldo López's prosecutor, Franklin Nieves, wallows in self-pity as he tells the world he participated in a plot to fake the evidence used against Lopez.
Money is Useless: Inside The Cola Lifestyle in Guayana
What happens when a very shy economist from Ciudad Guayana has to pop his Mercal cola cherry?
Doña Petra vs. the Machine
How do you move from a kleptocratic system of control to a progressive system of support and economic institutionalization?
Is the petrostate moral?
Forget about the economy. Worry about what the flood of unaccountable wealth does to the nation's soul.
With a Gun to its Head, Aporrea Discovers Freedom of Speech
Rage-inducing as Aporrea's late conversion is, Venezuela's public sphere would be badly diminished if chavistas lost the one independent medium they have left.
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