The Petrocaribe Trap
A guest post by Alexis Caraballo, who makes her living as a Caribbean regional analyst. A failing economy, where everything for sale in the shops is imported, with dwindling foreign reserves...
Life
El Gran Dictador
A great speech. A great video. Watch it until the end.
The myth of Washington's lost influence in the Americas
After last week’s vote in the OAS, where the United States lost to Venezuela in a vote to let Maria Corina Machado speak, the consensus in Venezuela has...
The myth of Washington's lost influence in the Americas
After last week’s vote in the OAS, where the United States lost to Venezuela in a vote to let Maria Corina Machado speak, the consensus in Venezuela has...
Don't trust your gut
Some people say that the best way to make decisions is to “trust your gut.” As political advice goes, we can do a lot worse. However, the danger...
Banned in Caracas
A while back, our old comrade blogger Alek Boyd opened a blog called Infodio. In Alek’s trademark, no-holds-barred style, the site has become an indispensable source of information (some call it gossip,...
Venezuela: Not so "chévere," by @xavi_dasilveira
Today, I got hold of this open letter addressed to Tourism Minister Andres Izarra by a Uruguayan tourist named Javier da Silveira. In its fifteen pages, he recounts his experiences...
Integration to spur democracy vs. non-Democrats peddling non-integration
In her memoir The Downing Street Years, Margaret Thatcher talks extensively about the evolution of the European Community, now the European Union. In discussing the obstruction of Greece...
Repression with a Brazilian scent
One of the constant images of the current wave of protests has been the overwhelming and excessive use of tear gas by the National Guard and other security...
Happy Monday, everyone!
Warning – don’t watch this before having your Monday morning coffee. I’m just gonna refrain from commenting on this one because I think y’all can do a much...
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