All We Are Saying Is Give Peace a Rest
Before you take me for some gun-toting nut, let’s get one thing straight: "Peace", in Colombian political parlance, doesn’t mean what it says in the dictionary. In the...
Is Wellisch this year's Antonini?
This article by Argentine newspaper Clarín puts a name to the recent bribery scandal in Argentina: Roberto Wellisch, CEO of Palmat International, the supposed Miami intermediary in the...
The only interesting thing about Chávez’s Twitter account ...
… is reading what people are saying to him. Case in point: @VVperiodistas says "Twitter es libre expresión: Hoy a las 8pm twitteros protestan enviando #tasponchao a @Chavezcandanga"
Well, if Johns Hopkins says so
Apparently, there is more meat to the mystery of Simón Bolívar’s death than meets the eye. Dr. Paul Auwaerter, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University, claims that poisoning...
Lacking any other practical means of getting his message out...
…Hugo Chávez has started tweeting. Guess the guy just didn’t feel a press agency, three newspapers, six TV channels, a global network of embassies, lobbyists and friendly activists...
Full of air
Venezuela’s state news agency ABN recently announced that Venezuela plans to install 10,000 MW of wind power capacity in the next 15 years. Seriously, they said that. To...
The hat makes the man
I want to listen to what Enrique Mendoza has to say. I want to take him seriously. I really do, but I can’t. The sight of an overweight,...
Blame it on the rain
Don’t look now, but the water level at Guri has stopped going up which, as even a chavista understands, means it’s going down. The combination of less rain, fragile transmission...
In praise of Goicoechea
Rarely does an op-ed piece move me as Yon Goicoechea’s piece in El Universal did today. First, a bit of back-story: Goicoechea was the leader of the student movement...
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