Light Summer Reading
A couple of months ago, Harvard’s Center for International Development hosted the second conference on Venezuelan Economic Growth 1970-2005. I’m really sorry I didn’t get to attend, but...
Life
Quotable Vegas
Thanks to Katy, I got my hands on a copy of Falke, Federico Vegas’s remarkable novel about the ill-fated “invasion” of Venezuela by anti-Gomez exiles in 1929. I’m...
Anatomy of a Scoundrel...
The more folks look into it, the longer Julio Makarem’s “rabo’e’paja” looks. You know who I’m talking about…Mr. Makarem, chairman of that most respectable polling firm North American...
Light Summer Reading
A couple of months ago, Harvard’s Center for International Development hosted the second conference on Venezuelan Economic Growth 1970-2005. I’m really sorry I didn’t get to attend, but...
Quotable Vegas
Thanks to Katy, I got my hands on a copy of Falke, Federico Vegas’s remarkable novel about the ill-fated “invasion” of Venezuela by anti-Gomez exiles in 1929. I’m...
The plant that ate the lake
Katy says: Once again, the rain season is upon us, and lemna has returned in full force to Lake Maracaibo. A year after an environmental disaster caused, in...
The plant that ate the lake
Katy says: Once again, the rain season is upon us, and lemna has returned in full force to Lake Maracaibo. A year after an environmental disaster caused, in...
Are you in Brighton? Know anyone in Brighton?
Come to watch this roundtable on Wednesday (day after tomorrow) at 4:00 pm: Latin America in the Spotlight & 40th Anniversary of IDS Roundtable Politics in Latin America:...
Are you in Brighton? Know anyone in Brighton?
Come to watch this roundtable on Wednesday (day after tomorrow) at 4:00 pm: Latin America in the Spotlight & 40th Anniversary of IDS Roundtable Politics in Latin America:...
Podcast: The Velásquez Alvaray-Maria Alejandra Rivas-Julio Makarem-Anderson Case Nexus
In this seven minute podcast, I try to explain how the Velásquez Alvaray scandal fits in with the Anderson Case, and North American Opinion Research’s Julio Makarem’s role...
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