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.…
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: 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.…
US DoS examining Hugo Chavez’s diplomats
Well, well. It seems that, at last, US media and authorities are catching up with some indisputable facts about Hugo Chavez’s diplomats in the USA. The Miami Herald reports today that Martin Sanchez, Venezuela’s Consul…
¿Se ira Mambrú a la guerra?
El domingo pasado, el residente de Miraflores profirió una de esas frases que quedan para la historia. No se le ocurrió nada mejor que ordenarle a los venezolanos, ya que el no pide nada por…
The NYT gets useless Hugo Chavez
Interesting Article today in the NYT by Simon Romero. I particularly liked the lede: CARACAS, Venezuela — This country may be an energy colossus, with the largest conventional oil reserves outside the Middle East and one of…
UNGOOGLE: ONLINE REPUTATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES
For some years, we have been aware of the existence of online reputation management techniques. This method, which is basically playing Google to get online content in first page results, is an underdeveloped field. Google recently came…