After the US entered #Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro and develop a cooperative relation with his successor, Delcy Rodríguez, a new chapter in Venezuela's oil legal history started. But this is a longer history. Raul Sanchez U and I explore here for TWQ 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Full article: From bolibourgeoisie to cryptocrats: how the crisis and sanctions reshaped Venezuela’s ruling elite into a new oligarchy by @benedictebull.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I am pleased to share this conversation about crisis, governance, and everyday use of #crypto in contexts of volatility, in the Society for Economic Anthropology's podcast Mergers & Acquisitions. It was a pleasure to share the space with Wesam Hassan and Al Lim. open.spotify.com/episode/7kPU...

Twilight of the oligarchs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wow.

Les comparto un reportaje de @rcienespanol.bsky.social sobre los costos físicos y sociales de la crisis venezolana desde una mirada feminista, basados en una entrevista que tuvimos en enero y la reciente publicación de “Embodying Predation” con @antuliorosales.bsky.social (link debajo) #Venezuela

La crisis venezolana vista desde el cuerpo femenino y la vida cotidiana, con @masayalb.bsky.social ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/es/notic...

A un mes de los eventos del 3 de enero en Venezuela, @masayalb.bsky.social analiza la crisis desde sus impactos materiales: el retiro del Estado, la expoliación del trabajo de cuidados y el desgaste sistemático de los cuerpos de mujeres y niñas. 🔗 Lee el reportaje completo aquí: bit.ly/4qYPvxj

Second Draft of the Hydrocarbons Reform: The Largest Tax Cut in Decades guacamayave.com/en/second-dr...

I wrote a paper about Cryptofinance, and the ways the U.S. state has negotiated the consolidation of cryptocurrency trading in large platform firms. It traces the rise of FTX (Sam Bankman-Fried's firm) as it moves from Berkeley to Hong Kong to the Bahamas. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This absolute king.

Over 11 MM ppl use cryptocurrencies in #Argentina, (over 20% of the population!) I explain the success of the crypto in Argentina, paying close attention to its intertwining with crisis. 🧵 Curls, caves, and shadows: how cryptocurrencies thrive in (poly)crisis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Decálogo de exigencias prioritarias para encauzar una transición democrática genuina en Venezuela www.wola.org/es/2026/01/d...

Then as now, big stick diplomacy will lead to costly cycles of intervention and retrenchment. foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/19/u...

I wanted to make a thread about the useful analyses coming out about the situation in Venezuela, but there is a lot, and everyday new things come out. It may be more useful to share some of the existing analysis of how we got here. Books in no particular order and on various themes/issues... 🧵

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

What can Trump offer Big Oil to bring US capital back to Venezuela? f24.my/Bf7e.BS

A side story is there’s a ton of insider trading on these prediction markets. New accounts making hundreds of thousands on their first and only trade, that maduro would be ousted. Seems like insider trading is legal if not encouraged on these platforms

Gracias a la Revista Nueva Sociedad por publicar una versión en español de mi artículo para @currenthistory1.bsky.social. La nueva era del criptoautoritarismo nuso.org/articulo/320...

The Price of American Authoritarianism What Can Reverse Democratic Decline?

We are glad to finally see this piece out, after a long wait. Thanks to excellent reviewers and especially many researchers, non-governmental organizations and international agencies that have helped gather information to not keep the Venezuelan crisis forgotten. #OpenAccess #Venezuela

📣Publication Alert! #OpenAccess "Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" just came out! Here is a short summary ⬇️ academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...

@dsmilde explains that operation southern spear may not only unleash a costly and unpredictable conflict, but it could further undermine US democracy. thedispatch.com/article/vene...

Today @javiercorrales.bsky.social explains that one thing is to overthrow a dictator and a very different one is to establish a democracy. And why Trump is unlikely to achieve the second in Venezuela. time.com/7337974/trum...

After a long time in the works, @benedictebull.bsky.social and I have a chapter in the new edited collection edited by Joy Gordon on the effects of economic sanctions worldwide now out with @universitypress.cambridge.org. Check it out. www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

Full article: Geo-themed and geo-centric thought: reflections on the onto-epistemological basis of critical thought’s geologic turn Mauricio Collao Quevedo www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PFJNY...

Job - please share widely! Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South. Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...

"Drake’s works stand out for a stunning act of defiance: ...it was illegal at the time for enslaved people to learn how to read or write. On one jar, Drake reflected...: 'I wonder where is all my relation / Friendship to all—and every nation.'" www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

"One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver." apnews.com/article/trum...

"Maduro is a heinous dictator, and there is a need for international engagement. But what is to be done should be developed on the basis of real facts and analysis, not the tall tales of exiled and displaced leaders, which have led to disastrous miscalculations in the past" by @dsmilde.bsky.social

Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to this essay in our November special issue by @antuliorosales.bsky.social, on the links between cryptocurrency, corruption, and authoritarianism, from the United States to El Salvador and Venezuela.

Check out my new piece -> A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism in Current History. It is now open access! online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...

Our November special issue on Anti-Governance is out! Featuring @erik-jones.bsky.social on the abandonment of institutions, @cettamainwaring.bsky.social, Andonea Dickson & Thom Tyerman on hardline migration control, Gideon Lasco on medical populism…

Also in our new special issue: @erolsaglam.bsky.social on conspiracism going mainstream, @antuliorosales.bsky.social on cryptocurrency and corruption, Holly Case on authoritarian fact-making, and @duncanbell.bsky.social on tech tycoons’ posthumanism.

@antuliorosales.bsky.social y yo estamos muy contentes por este reconocimiento y con ánimos de difundir el artículo en cuanto sea publicado. Gracias a @lasavenezuela.bsky.social por generar espacios de estudio y apoyo a los estudios sobre #Venezuela 🇻🇪♥️

🚨La Sección de Estudios Venezolanos de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 🚨 MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES “Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social

Full article: FinTech as a state-orchestrated strategy: redefining financialization of households in Argentina www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎥Pulling back the curtain✨Meet the section heads who are crafting an unforgettable #CPSA_ACSP26 experience-They're ❤️beat of the conference! 👉🏽 shorturl.at/AgUow @russellawilliams.bsky.social @jbroschek.bsky.social @antuliorosales.bsky.social @jonathanrose.bsky.social @emmettmacfarlane.com

Here some of the initial analyses about the María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize award. 🧵

Q&A: Facts and Fictions Regarding Venezuelan Crime and Drug Trafficking open.substack.com/pub/davidsmi...

Venezuela and the United States by @dsmilde.bsky.social davidsmilde.substack.com?r=2cdt1t&utm...

Financing the border: racial capitalism, migration, and the practices of the Canadian state: Review of International Political Economy: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Network State, Exit, and the Political Economy of Venture Capital - Jutel - Antipode By @ojutel.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...