I love this photo of my friend and co-director, Arturo Albarrán that I took at the Berkeley Marina two months after his arrival in the US on the “Parole Program” our government is offering Haitians and Venezuelans. I’m especially grateful to have Arturo living with us today as we commemorate the UN Day of…
It’s difficult to write about Ukraine and I wonder what I could possibly add to the commentary. On the other hand, I can’t remain silent before such an affront to the dignity, honor, and life of the Ukrainian people that is the illegal, and outrageous invasion by Vladimir Putin’s military. I hope and pray the…
I highly recommend anything by Javier Corrales, but this recent piece is really exceptional. He goes into detail on “why Cuban President Diaz-Canel” is still facing rebellion at home, and it’s exactly the sort of information people on the left, and progressive or liberal left need to hear about Cuba. Corrales teamed up with Scott…
Note: I had the pleasure of doing an interview with Jeudiel Martínez on Facebook chat July 17th after I read the essay, Cuba Libre (below, in English, la versión en español está aquí) a few days after the unprecedented protests that shook Cuba on July 11th. I thought readers might find a little background…
Two new posts came out today—what a Bastille Day this year!—and there’s a strange synchronicity about it all. You know, Bastille day, July, the month of Revolutions (US on July 4th, Venezuelan on July 5th, the Cuban on July 26th, the Nicaraguan on July 19th , and of course France in July 1789 and…
Dr. Richard Miller, with Charlie Deist at the controls, conducted an interview with me on April 6th for the series “Confessions of Psychedelic Elders.” I admit to having thoroughly enjoyed the hour +, and who wouldn’t enjoy an hour to talk about themselves? I hope it was useful in the present struggle to gain some…
I struggled over the past few days to write a fitting tribute to my dear friend, our dear friend, David Fetcho, but I was fortunately spared the agony of finding fitting words by Jim Friedrich, who wrote an extraordinary piece you can read here. And I highly recommend that you do. David’s interests and talents…
(This is a revised version of a piece first published at Caracas Chronicles. I think that piece lacked nuance, so I’ve worked it over here) Imagine my surprise to hear that my Venezuelan friend’s parents “like” Trump. I suppose that “distance makes the heart grow fonder” since for many years it had the same…
My post was “Editor’s Pick” at Caracas Chronicles this week. Thanks. Go figure. I spend hours on some articles that no one seems to notice, and other posts, like this one, take about an hour out of a morning. I clearly don’t understand the secret to “success.” If I did, I might have the misfortune…
A Venezuelan friend recently told me that he thought Trump will win re-election. “He sounds every day more like Chávez,” he wrote me. I’ve been thinking the same things, myself, these days as I’ve tuned in and out of the impeachment hearings. And I also recall another Venezuelan telling me once, some fifteen or…