Last week, Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni was barred from appointing her own counsel at a disciplinary tribunal to eject her from the bench. A bizarre injustice, but entirely in keeping with the kafkaesque seven year ordeal she has faced.
It's not just that Trump and Maduro have a disturbing tendency to believe things that are plainly false, it's that they turf out their understanding of the world to obvious charlatans.
As massacres become a weekly event in Venezuela, mass graves are crafting a new abnormal normality, rendering empathy impossible and dehumanizing us little by little.
Has any other Latin American done as much damage in a single lifetime as Fidel Castro? It's...not even close.
It's not a socialist revolution without desperate boat people risking their lives to get out. Kohut and Casey have done it again.
A meditation on my final few hours in this amazing, terrifying, tortured place
As Venezuela's state media blacks out news that Cilia Flores's nephews were convicted on big time drug charges, we take a tour of Communicational Hegemony today.
I spent years reading the IRIN website for news about the world's absolutely worst places. Now, they run news about Venezuela.
The Venezuelan government is being destabilized by a part-timer. Yes. Really. Click through for the scarcely-believable details.
Entrega final del Book Club sobre la obra de Carlos Rangel: Del Buen Salvaje al Buen Revolucionario.
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