Politics
Amnesty International details a Year of Impunity
Below, the Executive Summary to the New Amnesty International report on Venezuela: The Faces of Impunity: A Year After The Protests, Victims Still Await Justice. A year after...
Ask Smartmatic
As primaries and elections loom, @LuisCarlos Diaz’s in-depth, myth-busting interview with Smartmatic’s Rui Santos (@ElRui) is well worth an hour of your time. Longtime readers know my view here: there’s...
Dear President Obama: Of gringos, neighbours and Pepe
What a couple of weeks these have been for an already rattled Venezuela. Government officials have been slapped with sanctions. Foreign assets have been seized. Corruption scandals have been unveiled. The economy...
Our Health Ministry is a revolving door
Lost in the news whirlpool of open letters, diplomatic summits and military exercises, there’s the news that Nicolas Maduro has named a brand new Health Minister: PSUV Falcón...
To Recall is to Live, Winning Ugly Edition
teleSUR English recently had the curtesy to run a hatchet job on me built around this post, from December 2013, which they didn’t have the actual courage to...
Special powers are not that special
Maduro received the power today to rule by decree. It is the second time he has had these. Hugo Chávez had a ton of these during his tenure. You know...
The U.S. Military's Real Worry about Venezuela: That We'll Stop Giving Oil Away to Cuba
This, from a press conference today by Commander General John F. Kelly (USMC), U.S. Southern Command, simply defies parody: The real shame of it is, of course, they have...
Add $455 million to the tab
ICSID has ruled: Venezuela owes a further $455 million for the expropriation of Owens-Illinois’s bottling plants in Los Guayos, near Valencia and in Valera, in Trujillo state. That...
The Andorran connection (2nd Update)
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Treasury designated the Banca Privada d’Andorra (BPA) as a “foreign financial institution of primary money laundering concern”. After being informed by the U.S.,...
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