This blog goes back to 2015 or so with reports mainly on Venezuela. Recently, especially as Venezuelan politics have entered a morass, and all attempts to exit the quicksand has only more deeply entrapped forces on both sides, I’ve decided not to spend as much time writing about the situation. Those interested in the subject can find all the information they need at Caracas Chronicles and elsewhere. For now (2021) I’m blogging sporadically.
I’ve been slow to update my website since other things have intervened and I’ve also debated how much I want to occupy my mind with the “world’s most successful narcissist” as one friend called our new president-dictator. But I did write this piece for Caracas Chronicles and republished it in Spanish at Trópico Absoluto on…
I was among those who, in the early weeks and months of 2017 refused to call Trump and his followers “fascist.” I was (and still am) so sick of the tired, now only slightly combustible, rhetoric of my ultra-Left comrades that I winced at the term. When everyone out of the Leftist Circle of Light…
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…