I'll see your 16,000 murders and raise you a meeting in Germany
Over on CronicasDeCaracas.net, even the legendarily equanimous MoraimaG can’t help but blow her top at Chávez’s waste-of-protoplasm-as-tourism-minister Alejandro Fleming Cabrera.
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Yucky Bedfellows Chronicles
Something is very wrong in the world when the international figure I most agree with on the Libyan crisis is…Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Giving up the search for the fifth leg on the cat
Over in Spanish, Raúl Aular explains why you should.
Tahrir vs. Altamira
My new column for The New Republic – a personal meditation on the drama of Tahrir Square as seen from a Venezuelan exile’s perspective – is now up...
The glut around the corner?
CNN is reporting that other countries are joining Saudi Arabia and raising crude production in light of the prolongued conflict in Libya. The list, as you can fathom,...
Could SENIAT be pulled alive from the wreckage?
Over in Spanish, Moraima thinks so.
Telesur Correspondent Joins Anti-Libya Conspiracy
How sprawling is the global media conspiracy-of-lies against choir-boy Gaddafi’s regime? So sprawling, even Telesur’s correspondent in Eastern Libya is in on it.
Breaking the Unions (updated)
by Moraima García Yesterday, a Venezuelan judge sentenced union leader Rubén González to seven years in prison. His crime? Helping to organize a strike to demand unpaid back...
"Clinical practice" is a bourgeois aberration
Over in Spanish, Raul Aular (who is an actual M.D., though he doesn’t practice) takes you through the Ins and Outs of the government’s principled refusal to fund...
Introducing Moraima García
Today, over in Spanish, we introduce yet another new contributor. For a long time, Moraima García – moraimag to the habitués – has been writing some of the...
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