While the verbiage sounds like this is an attempt to replace the National Assembly, it looks like it will be a body that works at a lower level to distribute resources to communes and communal councils, of course the optics of this are alarming ... (but) I doubt it will seriously impede any functions of the National Assembly.

David Smilde

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In all situations of transitional justice there is a really difficult issue and that is that fighting against impunity and facilitating a transition often work in opposite directions.

There's not deep belief in, or loyalty to, The Venezuelan government, if something like this happens, they're absolutely going to save themselves first.

For the soldiers and whoever was running security, it was a bad d... by David Smilde

For the soldiers and whoever was running security, it was a bad day.

Giving Ceballos home incarceration and Baduel parole are positive gestures the government is making that can dampen some criticism, of course the elephant in the room is the incarceration of Leopoldo Lopez but the government does not appear willing to cede on that point for the time being.

I suspect this has to do, in a broad sense, with the warming rela... by David Smilde

I suspect this has to do, in a broad sense, with the warming relationship with the U.S..