Venezuela: Opposition march repressed with tear gas and buckshot
by Ramon Navarro and Laura WefferTranslated by Francisco Toro, reprinted from El Nacional. Photos from Devil’s Poop. CARACAS-“The order is to resist, resist,” said one lady close to...
Life
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Mugabe lessons well-learned An afternoon of violence in Caracas today. Massive riots all along the main East-West road – Avenida Libertador – all afternoon. Meanwhile, Chavez and the...
Mugabe makes Chavez look like an amateur
I didn’t know that I could despise any political message more than I despise Chavez’s, but today, I was proven wrong. Robert Mugabe’s speech to the G15 summit...
27-F
Mugabe lessons well-learned An afternoon of violence in Caracas today. Massive riots all along the main East-West road – Avenida Libertador – all afternoon. Meanwhile, Chavez and the...
Mugabe makes Chavez look like an amateur
I didn’t know that I could despise any political message more than I despise Chavez’s, but today, I was proven wrong. Robert Mugabe’s speech to the G15 summit...
Of course...
Lula and Kirchner are in Caracas as well. And they have eyes.
Of course...
Lula and Kirchner are in Caracas as well. And they have eyes.
Chavez, Mugabe, and the Credibility Gap
Hermanazo! Chavistas constantly acuse the press of treating their guy unfairly. They’re not always wrong. But last night’s little sound-bite, when Chavez lavished praise on the stomach-churningly violent...
Chavez, Mugabe, and the Credibility Gap
Hermanazo! Chavistas constantly acuse the press of treating their guy unfairly. They’re not always wrong. But last night’s little sound-bite, when Chavez lavished praise on the stomach-churningly violent...
Notes from my other identity...
As most of you probably know, I moonlight as an economics researcher at the United Nations University’s Institute for New Technologies in Maastricht, the Netherlands. On the theory...
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