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Venezuela isn’t so Bad, nor is Colombia so Great
December 22, 2016 ... people, has 43 public universities, while Colombia with 47 million people (18 million more) has 32. While Colombia ... -
Venezuela – A Last Warning
May 20, 2016 ... onto the black market. From the family that queues for hours and then re-sells some of what they’ve bought, to the ... to criminal gangs who hire people to queue for hours and buy whatever subsidised products are available ... it over and hand it to the communal power”. Less than 48 hours later, in an interview with Reuters, the vice-president ... -
Venezuela Slams Argentine TeleSUR Pullout amid International Outcry
March 29, 2016 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro together with an opposition lawmaker and a score of internationally-renowned intellectuals have condemned Argentina’s decision to withdraw from teleSUR on Sunday. -
Steve Ellner: Democratization of PSUV is Key to Chavismo’s Future
October 10, 2016 ... First, you have the popular sectors waiting on lines for hours and hours but they are able to buy goods that they need because ... I’m not denying that those lines are sometimes 4, 5, 6 hours which is a terrible situation. I’m not denying the ... -
Community-Delivered Food, Clean Clinics, and Queue-Less Banks: A Glimpse into VA’s Week in Venezuela
December 10, 2016 ... a grown person to the foetal position in a matter of hours, and readers have undoubtedly been treated to endless ... -
Venezuela's Economic Crisis: Does It Mean That the Left Has Failed?
October 27, 2016 ... economy for some time now. Shortages of food and medicine, hours-long lines for basic goods, incomes eroded by ... from arbitrage of some sort -- from waiting in line for hours for a small allocation of subsidized food and reselling ... -
Prime Minister Madura, the $170 Hamburger, and the Rising Floodwaters of Shonky Venezuela Coverage
June 9, 2016 ... gas. Even today, when I write about the economy , I spend hours pouring over economic data, seeking out alternative ... -
Calling All Venezuelans to the Table
June 13, 2016 ... lawns to plant food with my neighboring children. Two more hours and I”ll be up with the dawn, awaiting Fabi and ... -
Venezuela’s Outages and the Western Press’s Confirmation Bias Problem
April 18, 2016 Western media deploy double standards in their coverage of water and electricity shortages in Venezuela, blaming the country's leftist government for problems common across the global South.