Fidel Castro has died
Valldemossa 03.08.06 | Understandably there is much ado about the health condition of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Even in this lovely village, whose mayorship would be the envy of Red Ken, people are talking…
Las razones de mi retiro…
Londres 02 de Julio 2006 | [Va sin acentos] Hace unos dias anuncie publicamente que me retiraria del activismo politico. A raiz de tal anuncio he recibido una gran cantidad de correos que expresan, en…
Banco Canarias de Eligio Cedeño impulsa al sector agrícola
Un total de 130 créditos, que suman un monto total de 20 mil millones de bolívares, fueron entregados por el Banco Canarias en la nueva zona industrial de Valle de La Pascua, en alianza con…
Smartmatic
London 14.08.05 | The Florida register of companies contains details of the board of directors of Smartmatic Corporation, which is formed by Antonio Mugica, Alfredo Anzola, Antonio Mugica Rivero, Roger Piñate, Antonio Mugica Sesma and…
Sequoia / Smartmatic e-voting fiasco in Chicago
London 24.03.06 | Somewhat I feel vindicated. In August last year I posted an extremely thorough piece of investigative blogging regarding Smartmatic; the e-voting machines vendor, which owns Sequoia, that has proven so useful to…
North American Opinion Research: Hugo Chavez’s favourite pollster
London 15.02.06 | With the backing of figures provided by pollster North American Opinion Research (NAOR), Venezuela’s national electoral council’s (CNE) boss Jorge Rodriguez claimed in state media recently that, the organization he chairs, enjoys…
WTF is the problem with the Muslims?
London 03.02.06 | Richard Dawkins cited a quote by Stephen Weinberg that goes like this «Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad…
Is the Right emerging in the Americas?
London 28.01.06 | Recently Canadians booted out the liberal, and corrupt, government of Paul Martin and elected Conservative Stephen Harper. After bearing witness of a marked decrease of Canada’s international preponderance and 12 years of…
Neoliberalism as culprit of Latin America’s failure
London 28.01.06 | In doing research for a paper I have to present in a conference later on this year, I have come across, too often, with the notion that neoliberalism is the main culprit…
On Marcela Sanchez’s "The Petty Politics of Venezuela’s Arms Purchases"
London 21.01.06 | It continues to amaze me the sheer disregard that purportedly respected journalists have for facts. Even more worrying is their continuous repetition of old cliches, politically charged articles, in which they pretend…