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...
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...
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...
(A reader sends us this translation of an interview with Marvinia Jiménez that appeared in El Carabobeño, a Valencia daily, a few weeks ago. Marvinia was brutally attacked...
Dear UNASUR Foreign Ministers: Thank you for your interest in the Venezuelan conflict. Now that you helped make the OAS a veritable “circus,” we can start discussing the visit...
It was galling to see Venezuelan dissident voices effectively muzzled at OAS today, as the organization voted by 22 countries to 11 to hold a closed-doors session, far...
A few days ago, Maduro was having a down in the dumps day, he needed a quick pick me up, something empowering, something to assert his manhood. So,...
This report by my friend Cristián Arriagada for Chile’s Teletrece is as close as you get to objective reporting on Venezuela. I think it’s very well made. (In Spanish).
The student movement is not only using new media to spread its case to the public. They’re also visiting some of Caracas’ slums to convince their residents and...
I wake up to the soothing sounds of a chopper; like a giant mosquito that you just can’t swat. Check my phone: Monday, 6:45 am. Insane tweets from...
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