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 haven’t written about Venezuela for a while, mainly because after the Juan Guaidó fiascos the Maduro dictatorship just went on pillaging the country as he and Chávez had been doing for the previous two decades. The situation appeared hopeless and, frankly, I lost heart. I became more preoccupied with my own country and its…
What? Donald Trump trying to “defraud the United States”? (Canned laughter, please). Yes, but of course. This malignant narcissist, unsurprisingly a compulsive liar, scamming cheater, and conman supreme, clearly did his best to steal the Presidential election of 2020. The evidence has been laid out by none other than the US Congress. There is no…
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…
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…
Out of respect for Mr. Marti, I’m posting a link to his post, and to another here, wherein he claims Biden stole the 2020 election and responds to my article at Caracas Chronicles. I make these available to those of you who have the time, interest and inclination to read work that appears to me…