Referendum or bust The game now is quite clear. The latest polls suggest the government would lose the consultative referendum 60-40 at ...

I wasn't that excited about this week's VenEconomy editorial, but my boss insists that primaries are absolutely crucial and that w...

Incitement = Violence It keeps happening. Time and again we think we've hit bottom, that the political scene can't possibly sin...

There's no stopping the referendum... One of the perils of journalism is that you end up writing stories now and then that, though...

Wednesday, it must be time for a VenEconomy editorial... Negotiating with a Narcissist Much of what’s happened in Venezuelan politi...

Aggression! Violence! Fascism! It was really heart rending hearing J.V. Rangel’s speech yesterday. The passion in his words, the anger i...

“This is the protest that never ends… …it just goes on and on like this…” What to even say about the last 150 hours on Plaza Altamir...

Sensitive New Age Coup It wasn't hard to guess that sooner or later General Enrique Medina Gomez would eventually try to piece tog...

I'm obviously hopping mad about the government's incredible, howling, flashing, bold-faced lying about yesterday's "paro....

Newsflash: AD toes the line! I think I just saw the most significant event of the whole strike, and I bet most people missed it. Rafael ...

Strike update... Well, it looks like a pretty good general strike. Not a great strike. We've had better ones. December 10th was bigg...

My country has become a scare tactic... How embarrassing. In the final few days before the Brazilian presidential election, the doomed r...

This riot is brought to you by...your government! It's hard to contain the seething anger I feel when watching the TV footage from y...

Anatomy of (yet another) downtown riot … (sigh…these are getting predictable…) At first, people weren’t sure what to make of the protes...

[it occurs to me that, especially for non-Venezuelans, the column above might not make that much sense without an…] Explicative note on h...

Yes, yes, I've been delinquent about posting. In my defense, I've been battling a dreadful cold and sinking under a pile of work. ...

7 kilometers, packed solid... I'm just about to step outside and go march, but one last update: it's huge. My boss just called...

World Mental-Health Day An inside story in El Nacional tells us it's World Mental-Health Day today. How apropos. Mental health is no...

The Revolt of Los Palos Grandes Last night was a circus. First, Rosendo Struck Again. Major General Manuel Rosendo, in full military u...

Ineffectual authoritarianism… What a farce! The TV images from the joint Secret Police/Military Intelligence raid of Colonel Antonio Gue...

The rumor mill on overdrive... Well, Ana and Pedro, if you read this from Rome, I hate to alarm you but Caracas was spooky today. The ru...

Closer and closer to the edge… Soldiers in the metro, soldiers at the big east-side shopping mall (the Sambil), soldiers downtown. Tan...

"This can't last: it's too stupid." Caracas can't be said to have the most vibrant intellectual life in Latin Amer...

"Today, we aborted a coup..." If Enrique Tejera-Paris is the best the opposition can come up with for a coupster, man, we...

"Gaviria Go Home!" More coup rumors today. My colleague has gotten three different anguished phone calls from friends who'...

Is the glass two-thirds full... ...or one-third empty? As Cesar Miguel Rondón - Venezuela's fat, balding version of Larry King - kep...

not sure how happy my boss will be if he sees I've posted VenEconomy's subscription-only editorial on this free website, but christ...

“They’d told me what made Venezuela tick was oil… …but now that I get here, I see that what the country really runs on is rumors.” It...