When Hunger Knocks on Your Door
Elsa has worked the last 53 years of her life and she can’t retire with dignity because her salary as a university professor, her pension, and what her children bring in is not enough.
Politics
A Playbook for MUD
MUD needs to participate in the 20% signature drive, but on its terms: creating parallel mechanisms for disenfranchised people to formally register their disenfranchisement, and setting the stage for a campaign of civil disobedience.
Opposition Reacts (sort of) to CNE's Hope-Destroying 20% Statement
We look through the opposition Twittersphere to take the temperature of an opposition on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
The Day Jorge Rodríguez Overreached
As the government's chief tactician and the power behind the CNE throne, Jorge Rodríguez's job is to keep the opposition divided. But last night's decision, which kills the Recall Referendum cold, will do just the opposite.
Transport Sector on Edge Amid Protests and Calls for a Strike [Updated Twice]
If it looks like a strike, sounds like a strike, smells like a strike, tastes like a strike and feels like a strike it's a...caravan to petition the Transport Minister for a fare hike.
To Be Born in Venezuela
Having a baby is a harrowing experience at the best of times. Imagine doing it in a country with no medicines, no diapers, no surgical facilities. Now imagine doing it with no insurance.
SEBIN Arrests Activists Who Produced PJ Video Against Repression
As the police starts arresting people for making protest videos against the police repressing people who protest, Venezuela's dictatorship is now beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt.
Seriously, isn't Timoteo Zambrano going to resign?
On the diplomatic blunder scale, Timoteo Zambrano scored a Full Duterte yesterday. It makes no sense for him to keep his job as MUD's main International spokesperson after that.
There's something about Betania II
I went to visit my sister in Ciudad Betania, a sprawling complex of five GMVV housing projects just outside Ocumare del Tuy. They're pretty screwed up places. Well, four out of the five are. Then there's Betania II.
A Backchannel is Betrayed
Why would you make a secret back channel public? Because you are strong? Just the opposite: you lash out when you realize you're too weak to impose impossible demands.
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