Venezuela vs Colombia: A Border Spat That Could Give the Whole Hemisphere Heartburn By the time you read this, the Bolívarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Colombia have already performed their daily choreography of saber-rattling, Twitter-thread diplomacy, and the kind of military posturing that looks impressive only if you squint really hard and…
Venezuela vs The Known Universe: A One-Sided Bout in Extra Rounds By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, somewhere over the Caribbean CARACAS—In the blue corner, weighing in at 916,445 km² and shrinking fast, stands a country whose inflation rate once clocked 130,060 %—a figure so cartoonish it made Zimbabwe blink. In every other corner,…
Quito, Ecuador – Somewhere between the Andes and a nervous hedge fund, Ecuador and Argentina are playing a game that looks suspiciously like football but smells unmistakably like geopolitics. The fixture itself—tonight at Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado—will decide little in the cosmic ledger: three points, a few million collective heartbeats, maybe a shattered TV or…
