Consider this an intermission between parts one and two of “We have Met the Enemy”. In part two I’ll be looking at the multiple failures and bad moves that undermined Operation Libertad April 30th 2019. But that story is unfolding, mostly in Spanish language media, so I’m having to do a bit of translation to…
The transcript of my interview with Bob Zadek is now up at the Medium.com website along with a link to the interview itself. You can read it or listen to it here. I’m now in Argentina en route to Uruguay where my co-director Arturo Albarrán and I will be showing our movie and working on…
I’m tired of reading about myself as I’m not likely to learn anything at all new from the interviews I’ve done. But they may be of interest to you, and I’m grateful to Emily Avendaño for taking an interest and doing a nice job on this (even if I only skimmed it). La conversión de…
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…
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…
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…