Category Tag: Alek Boyd

Caracas Chronicles is one of the four longest-running blogs that have been covering the collapse of our country’s democracy, for a predominantly English audience. It’s author, Francisco Toro, is, without a doubt, perhaps the most…

Professor Lee Salter is probably going to call this another example of BBC propaganda, but as every piece of news coming out of Chavez’s Venezuela these days, what the world’s media report is, generally, a…

Something must be happening in the brotherhood of Castro dictators. El País reports this morning that Luis Yáñez, a socialist Spanish MEP, was refused entry in  Cuba, and had to board the next plane out…

As a new year begins, it is perhaps fitting to revise the issue that affects most the majority of Venezuelans: crime. Some context is needed for illustration purposes, so figures from Colombia (a nation at…

The MSM strikes as ever so utterly incompetent nowadays. In its reporting of Eligio Cedeño’s case, the Venezuelan banker who gossip has it was jailed for having dumped Hugo Chavez’s daughter, journalists have failed miserably…

My communication with Dr. Lee Salter, a journalism professor and researcher from the University of the West of England, who has recently argued that the BBC’s coverage of Venezuela amounts to propaganda, started thus: Dear…

A couple of events this week have gone completely unnoticed by the MSM: 1) illegally imprisoned banker Eligio Cedeño was freed, and allegedly has already left Venezuela, and 2) the Inter American Court of Human…

Years ago I argued that the individual’s only recourse left, in countries ruled by totalitarian regimes, is the use of violence. Apologists of Hugo Chavez, by definition a totalitarian dictator, have thought that citing me out…