Note: You need to read Rafael Osío Cabrices and Raúl Stolk’s piece on the state of Venezuela today, posted at Caracas Chronicles. This is what twenty years of wreck and ruin by a “socialist” elite operating with impunity hath wrought. Do we need more lessons on why a dysfunctional, inefficient, hypocritical, half- and weak-hearted liberal…
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…