Entre parabienes enviados con cinismo o inconsciencia al “nuevo” presidente demócrata de Venezuela, y actos de auto-congratulación por la madurez de la democracia de aquel país, pasando por un optimismo beato ante el surgimiento -por fin- de una oposición
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A Bunch Of Crooks On The Run
Early in 1964, a group active during La Violencia—a period of extreme violence and turmoil that wracked Colombia during the 1950s—launched a peasant uprising in what became known as the “Republic of Marquetalia,” a rough-and-tumble backwater of western Co
COLOMBIAN CAPTIVES FREED; CHAVEZ EXPOSED
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez unwittingly revealed the truth about his secret relationship with Colombia’s FARC guerrillas in early January, a development that can be seen as one of the most important in recent times in Latin America.
To achieve his s
Latin America’s Two Lefts
A perception has been growing over the last few years – and picking up strength in recent months – that Latin America is swinging back to the left. The unimpressive – and sometimes dismal – results of economic reform seem to have generated a backlash that
¿Cómo hacerle?
Hace unos días me comentaba un alto funcionario del gobierno que se ve obligado a lidiar simultánea y recurrentemente con Chávez y con AMLO, que no sólo se parecen, por ser “un peligro para México”, sino que tienen una característica adicional: colocan a
Attempted Theft
Most of Latin America’s leaders breathed a sigh of relief earlier this week, after Venezuelan voters rejected President Hugo Chávez’s constitutional amendment referendum.
Nerves
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is not exactly on a roll. Yes, oil prices remain close to $100 per barrel, and there are worse things that can happen than receiving tax-free revenues of up to $300 million every day. But on the eve of a Dec. 2 referendu
There Goes the Neighborhood
The last week of June was probably the Bush administration’s worst period ever in terms of Latin America policy. Its nemeses in the hemisphere—Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Ecuador’s Rafael
La indiferencia de los vecinos
El escándalo de RCTV en Venezuela comprende varias aristas. Desde la sorprendente movilización de estudiantes de universidades públicas y privadas en contra del cierre, hasta la inesperada tibieza de la comunidad internacional, e incluyendo la creciente e
Bush ha dejado un vacío en la región
Por su incapacidad para llevar a cabo proyectos importantes como la inmigración, la reducción de tarifas para el etanol o los TLC que tiene pendientes, aBush ha dejado un vacío de liderazgo en América Latina que con razón ha llenado Chávezd, dice Jorge Ca