The one unambiguously good thing the gringos are doing in Venezuela
Looking through the Wikileaks cables, it strikes me that there is one unambiguously good thing the U.S. is doing in Venezuela: helping Cuban health professionals escape from the...
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It works like the lottery, basically
If people really understood how vanishingly, impossibly small their chances of winning the lottery are, nobody would play. But they do: year after year, decade after decade, generation...
Wikileaks: Caracas Chronicles Full of Expletive (Updated)
Great fun from the Wikileaks docu-dump: ¶1. (C) SUMMARY: A plain-spoken nuclear physicist told Econoff [the U.S. consulate's Economics Office] that those spreading rumors that Venezuela is helping...
From "damn nuisance" to something more
After the wettest November on record, Venezuela is experiencing serious flooding all through the long Caribbean coast. Granted, bits of the country flood every time it rains hard...
How transparent can this guy get?!
So, what date did Hugo Chávez choose to sign Unasur’s new anti-coup d’état “Democratic Charter“? November 27th, of course! If you’re young and/or not Venezuelan, that date may...
If Wikileaks is right, Hugo Chávez is an American Stooge
The Wikileaks U.S. Diplomatic Cable data-dump – or rather, the first few shards of it, which is all we’ve seen so far – is a subject of deep...
The day the far right really tried to assassinate the Venezuelan president
It’s easy to forget – and weird to think about – but there was a time when the foreign-backed fascists really did try to murder a massively popular,...
Far Out
Not three months ago, in reading through the responses to one of those occasional, naively-hopeful, instantly-pounced-on, ultimately-misguided Guardian pieces I like to write, I was amazed when one of...
No More Constituyentes - Please!
Sorry about the radio silence, folks, I’ve been travelling. Still, I felt strongly like I need to comment on Juan C.’s possibly inevitable Constitutional Assembly post, because it...
The Freedom Not to Publish
With the shift back to a Comments Free For All comes a necessary rehash for all the reasons not to have one in the first place. Here, I...
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