A couple of days before the Presidential elections in Venezuela Caracas Chronicles published my interview with Anatoly Kurmanaev. I’m happy with how the interview turned out, but found that fitting everything into a 1200-or-so-word article challenging. There’s so much more to say about implications for journalism and society of a liberal democracy that no longer…
My post on the Vice Ministry of the Supreme Social Happiness of the Venezuelan People is up. That government agency’s work, it seems, isn’t as extensive as its name. You can find the article here at Caracas Chronicles. The International Times and the editor/publisher of one of my books (William Everson: The Light the…
Two interviews came out within a week of each other. They’re both long, but as one of the interviewers (Rupert Loydell of Stride Publications and International Times) said, they’re complementary. And they are, really, though they’re both very long. Veneco Candanga (link) interview was conducted by Juan Misle, and they’ve been kind enough to include both an…
(Note: Dissident Island, a radio show based in London, just did a very nice editing job on an interview they did with me in October. It’s now online here. I hope you enjoy it. The following was posted at my PM Press blog). 2017 has been a rough year for Venezuela, one from which…
I had a discussion about Venezuela with a small group of a dozen or so people here at the London Anarchist Book Fair today where I was supposed to show our film but as we had the room for only an hour, we just talked about the situation in the country. I promised to upload…
Chatting with my friend Arturo a while back he mentioned that the bank ATMs were limiting people to 10,000 bolívares in withdrawals. This problem has multiple problems, as every problem in Venezuela does. So first, let’s look at that number. It seems like a lot, right? I remember back about ten years ago or so when…
I posted an article today at libcom.org on the undoing of the FMLN in El Salvador. I’m in Bogotá Colombia after spending two weeks in El Salvador at the World Poetry Festival of El Salvador: 100 Voices for Oscar Romero. We took a day out with Marisol to visit Oscar Romero’s home and the church where…
I posted a piece on the Constituent Assembly Elections today from where I am in El Salvador. Tomorrow I’ll be heading into the World Poetry Festival of El Salvador, dedicated to Oscar Romero so I’ll no doubt be occupied for that for the better part of a week. This piece that follows is a translation…
We’re into the third month of the popular uprising in Venezuela and despite exhaustion on both sides (one can presume as much, and there are definite indications of it) this uprising isn’t going away. The opposition, which makes up some 70-90% of the country, depending on which polls you look at and how you…
This is May Day in Venezuela. “Happy” May Day. It’s time to celebrate the Venezuelan people who will no longer tolerate a dictator. They have my support… Witness how they “welcome” the dictator’s military: