As professional analysts become more like journalists, competing for attention in a crowded space, the least exciting scenario is always the one that risks being downplayed.

“Beyond the patronizing and colonialist undertones of assuming Vzlans have no idea what’s best for their country, many of these voices share a damaging obsession in forcing our crisis into the polarized frame of U.S. domestic politics.” @JuanCGabaldon for @CaracasChron

I wrote this in 2016 -years before economic sanctions- about mothers too malnourished to nurse, shoppers ambushed at gunpoint for scarce groceries, and people hunting pigeons to survive. The sole blame for Venezuela’s tragedy belongs to Nicolás Maduro. https://t.co/X2lqkwd4Eh

And on a personal note: It's deeply painful to me because @QuicoToro was my partner at CC. Our shared mission was a passionate need to explain the nuances of Venezuela to a world that did not understand us. Now he's doing precisely the opposite.

And on a personal note: It's deeply painful to me because @QuicoToro was my partner at CC. Our shared mission was a passionate need to explain the nuances of Venezuela to a world that did not understand us. Now he's doing precisely the opposite.

What if there were no more mass shootings... What if there were a cure...

As a journalist, I'm perplexed. As a former colleague, I am saddened, as a Venezuelan, I'm enraged.

~20 years ago I realized policy wonking could be cool thanks to @QuicoToro. Sad to read him pushing Maduro's talking points. (1) Vzla GDP/Imports stabilized in 19-20 as the regime relaxed exchange/price controls. (2) Walking migration exploded in 17, well before oil sanctions.

Venezuelans didn’t start fleeing in 2019, as @QuicoToro claims, blaming sanctions for “unleashing” our migration crisis. It began in 2014 thanks to Maduro, documented by the UN, OAS, even @CaracasChronicles, the site we once ran together. This isn’t journalism. It’s propaganda.

La crueldad como política de Estado Hay una saña particular del chavismo contra los pacientes de cáncer. Hoy, varios presos políticos en Venezuela agonizan en condiciones inhumanas, sin acceso a tratamiento ni revisión de medidas, porque así lo decide el poder. No es

Many Venezuelans say there’s little they could do if the U.S. were to attack. They’re focusing instead on triple-digit inflation, widespread deprivation and government persecution.

📊 Atlas/Bloomberg LATAM-WIDE Poll - Crisis in Venezuela 🇻🇪 We're releasing today the Latam-Wide poll, designed to provide robust estimates of public opinion for the entire adult population of Latin Americans living in the Americas, including the United States and Canada. 1️⃣

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@Tariusishere @theallinpod @MariaCorinaYA @friedberg U.S. sanctions, ramped up after Maduro's 2017 election fraud, targeted regime officials and PDVSA to pressure for democracy, slashing oil revenues and exacerbating shortages—but Venezuela's GDP plunge began in 2013 from socialist policies like price controls and expropriations.

Justice is beautiful ✌️🌻 They wanted to see me on the porch of my Brooklyn home, covered in blood. I wore red instead to face my would-be assassin and to celebrate life, justice, and freedom. The Russian mobsters hired by Iranian regime sent to kill me on US soil were

Hasta la fecha, se ha verificado la existencia de 1.067 personas privadas de libertad por motivos políticos en Venezuela, lo que constituye una muestra alarmante del uso sistemático de la detención arbitraria como herramienta de represión estatal y de silenciamiento del disenso

Twenty years of U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, says @60Minutes ... But economic sanctions began in 2019 against Venezuela's state oil company. What doomed Venezuela's economy and led eight million to flee was the seizure of companies and farms along with massive corruption.

At a press conference on August 12th, 1986, President Ronald Reagan famously said: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'"

#VenApp vuelve a activar el módulo para delatarse entre venezolanos La herramienta VenApp, presentada en 2022 como una solución tecnológica para gestionar reportes ciudadanos sobre fallas en servicios públicos en Venezuela, incorporó esta semana nuevos renglones para recibir

I find that most recent coverage of the U.S. /Venezuela standoff is so keen to expound on all the negative consequences of an intervention, but never the negative consequences of Maduro remaining in power.