I’m posting this as it came to me today from Rafael Uzcátegui. Given the nature of a group letter, the statistics seem to me to be conservative, but the statement and intentions are clear. to our friends throughout the world Translated by Daniel Cooper Bermúdez We, the organizations and people who defend human rights, activists…
This will be a short entry because, as the world is now witnessing, there’s not a lot of there there. I was on WhatsApp today with a friend in Venezuela and she asked, “Do you have any news about the humanitarian aid? We have no news here.” Hmm. Get it? Yeah. She lives in Venezuela…
Photo of demonstration in solidarity with Venezuelans in Spain. I was deeply moved by the number of comments, tweets and emails I received in the wake of the publication of “The Bolivarian God that Failed.” My thanks goes out to Jamie Palmer there who did such a wonderful job of editing that this piece shines…
My new piece is up at Quillette. Many thanks to Jamie Palmer, the editor who shepherded the story along over a couple of months and did really fine work on smoothing it out. There’s so much more to say than I could put into this 5,000+ piece, but I think the real limitation is the…
At 8 a.m. PST I’ll be on life with Bob Zadek talking about Venezuela and my 180 degree on the Bolivarian Revolution which led to my turn from socialism to liberalism and, therefore, to the market economy (otherwise known as “capitalism,” the term Marx brought into usage as a pejorative). Bob wrote up a promo…
I did a short (and I mean short) interview with CGTN today on the situation in Venezuela. For what it’s worth. In four minutes you really can’t get into too much depth in anything…
This is a letter I wrote to a left, social movement activist who wrote asking me for my perspective on what was happening in Venezuela. It’s been a long time since anyone on the left came looking for me and asked me for my reflections, so I gave them. For what it’s worth. I’m posting…
Sometime in the past week or so it came to my attention that this website had been hacked. Thanks to Charlie Lenk, the site is back up. It’s been a while since I wrote anything, mainly because the news out of Venezuela continues to be depressing and now that that disgusting creature occupying the White…
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…