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...
Life
"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...
Introducing Moraima García
Today, over in Spanish, we introduce yet another new contributor. For a long time, Moraima García – moraimag to the habitués – has been writing some of the...
The Real Chávez is The One Backing Gaddafi
Sooner or later, the balance of evidence becomes overwhelming: the real Chávez is the one convinced Gaddafi is facing a “campaign of lies” and keeps raving about wild gringo...
New Blood: Raul Aular
A big focus over the coming months will be broadening out the writing stable beyond just Juan and I by reaching out to new talent. We’re looking for...
Drowning in a sea of zeros
Over in Spanish, it’s the Calculator 1, El Nacional 0.
Ideal for Rounding Up Dissidents
You can’t make this stuff up. Above is ملعب هوجو تشافيز – Hugo Chávez Stadium to you and me – in Benina, Libya.
Chávez starts to pay the price for that Bolivar sword replica UPDATED
Even longstanding Chávez ball-coddler Nikolas Kozloff is appalled by his chumminess with Ghaddafi… Update: Now long time friend-of-the-house Al Giordano piles on – taking it out, bizarrely, on...
Nausea
The thought that the man responsible for this has been honored and lionized in my own country fills me with a kind of dread-soaked rage that feels curiously...
Revolutionary Priorities
The blue bars are the government’s 2011 spending budget. The orange bar is our estimate of the opportunity cost of selling gas below the world price.
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