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,...
Oil Sky-Rockets, Venezuelan Bonds Plunge
It takes a minute or two to fully absorb this Bloomberg chart: It shows the correlation between oil prices and Venezuelan sovereign bond prices. Venezuela’s ability to pay...
The Passing of Our Bleach Blonde Pasionaria
Yesterday, following her unexpected death, I found myself in the odd position of having to explain who/what Lina Ron had been to someone who’d never heard of her....
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...
Politician past his prime in presidential poll
Today, former Zulia governor and third-place finisher in the 1993 Presidential election Oswaldo Álvarez Paz formally announced he will seek the opposition’s nomination in next year’s presidential election....
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