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...
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...
El País has published its report on the latest batch of Wikileaks, a significant bunch dealing with Venezuela. From a cursory read of the contents of the cables,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 headline in the conservative blog The Daily Caller? “We could eat socialist arepas together…” In case you’re wondering about this, on his trip back from a NATO...
Just a quick shout-out to two books from long-time readers of this blog. Vicente Ulive-Schnell is the author of “Yo maté a Simón Bolívar.” I haven’t read it, but...
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