The New Normal: Days of Violence, Nights of Disinfo
Venezuela keeps plumbing new depths. As Raúl wrote, each one feels impossible to get used to...and then you do. This new normal, though...it gave me vertigo.
Politics
Nudity, Military Power and Civil Resistance
Awareness of vulnerability might be a key factor in opening space for the development of non-military solutions, “just as denial of this vulnerability through a fantasy of mastery can fuel the instruments of war."
Tear Gas & BBQ Sauce
A day spent in El Cafetal, the Home of Opposition Crazy, shows worrying signs of reversion to the most self-defeating instincts of 2014
Inside Chavismo’s May Day March
There’s a legend opposition members like to repeat to themselves: that public employees have to be dragged kicking and screaming to rallies in support of a government they despise. The reality is a bit more complicated than that.
Maduro Calls for an All-Venezuelan Congress of Soviets
In a desperate gambit to hang on to power, Nicolás Maduro calls a "Constituent Assembly" able to rewrite the constitution. All signs point to it being elected along soviet lines. Can the government survive a gambit this crazy?
PDVSA’s Scraps
At the government’s May Day demonstration in PDVSA, Naky stumbles into a living diorama that encapsulates the pathos of Venezuela today.
What Class Rules Venezuela?
Thanks to Chavismo’s bot armies, “Class Consciousness” was a trending topic on Twitter in Venezuela this week. How about we have a real conversation about it, minus the bots?
The day Venezuela went to visit Leopoldo
On Friday, thousands protested near Ramo Verde prison in Los Teques to demand the release of Leopoldo López, Venezuela's most popular politician and highest profile political prisoner.
The Toys of Repression
The Venezuelan government has spent big money on tanquetas, murciélagos, ballenas, armored personnel carriers and anti riot tear gas cannisters. Here's the rundown.
Being Tarek William Saab
Tarek is supposed to be the guardian of all Venezuelans' human rights, but he doesn't seem to excel at the task. He doesn't seem very willing to get any better at it either.
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