Gregory Wilpert ‘clarifies’ position
Gregory Wilpert has written to let me, and my readers, know that he has not misrepresented himself. His ‘clarification’ follows: Just to let you and your readers know: To say that I work for Brooklyn…
Smartmatic a Dutch company?
News don’t get anymore surreal than this: Mexico has just granted a $23 million contract to Smartmatic, which is now meant to be a Dutch company, to provide biometric technology needed to produce ID cards.…
¿Smartmatic es una empresa holandesa?
No hay noticias más surrealistas que esta: México acaba de otorgar $150 millones. Pero lo que parece completamente ignorante es cómo los medios mexicanos describen a Smartmatic como una empresa holandesa, cuando es de conocimiento…
Lula hugs Ahmadinejad, proves Olavo de Carvalho right
Just over a month ago I published a long interview to Brazilian journalist and intellectual, Olavo de Carvalho, about the Foro de Sao Paulo, and Lula’s interference in other countries affairs, among other things. Lula’s latest…
Cuba: violence unabated, Castros prove HRW and critics right
An inflamed mob of thugs, most probably members of Revolutionary Committees (Comites de Defensa de la Revolucion or CDR), attacked writer Reinaldo Escobar yesterday in Havana, Cuba. Reinaldo, who is Yoani Sanchez’s husband, had publicly…
Venezuela: Chávez cambiará metodología de medición del PIB
¿Recuerdan los lectores el artículo de Andrés Oppenheimer, en octubre de 2005, donde exponía que el Instituto de Estadística de Venezuela logró disminuir los niveles de pobreza, luego de que el presidente Hugo Chávez criticara…
Venezuela: Chavez to change GDP measure methodology
Do readers remember the article by Andres Oppenheimer, in October 2005, where he exposed that Venezuela’s Statistics Institute managed to decrease poverty levels, after President Hugo Chavez publicly blasted a report that showed a poverty…
Venezuela’s corruption level equal to war-torn nations
The BBC carries today an interesting article about worldwide corruption levels, entitled “War-torn nations ‘most corrupt‘” Venezuela is not officially at war, yet, though Hugo Chavez seems keen on taking the country down that path.…