Dog-bites-man Chronicles
The BBC is shocked, shocked that in Cuba things don’t work. The New York Times is appalled, appalled that there is corruption at the highest levels of the...
Life
What do we stand for?
Este post está disponible en español. Venezuela’s National Assembly, our playhouse of populist political theater, sometimes – once in a blue moon – has to actually legislate. One...
A fundamental unseriousness
If it had the slightest interest in such things, chavismo could build an honest, cogent, powerful case against international intervention in Libya. It could point out the thicket...
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.
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.
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