Yoani contra la barbarie
La ultima vez que visite el Alcatraz antillano, tuve la fortuna de conocer y departir brevemente con Yoani Sanchez. Cogimos la guagua y nos presentamos en su casa, así no mas. Recuerdo que el dial…
Identidad
Lo bueno de haber estado inmerso en literatura e historia latinoamericana durante el ultimo año, es el haber entendido un poco nuestro origen, como país, como colectivo, y los procesos que se llevaron a cabo…
Google confirms online reputation management
In August I wrote a post post about Google being the ultimate propaganda tool of Hugo Chavez. That post certainly riled some true believers, however, to their detriment, Google came out of the woods and…
Olavo de Carvalho explains Lula and the Sao Paulo Forum
Recent events in Honduras demonstrate, clearer than any other problematic political situation in Latin America, the moral fickleness of the so called international community and the media. For that country’s independent and sovereign institutions, read…
Hugo Chavez’s propagandists in Washington join the unemployed
It’s been a long time coming, but it appears that those who have made a killing out of spreading propaganda about Hugo Chavez in Washington DC, have joined the unemployed. Records from the Foreign Agents…
El otro
Nuestro idioma, tan rico en adjetivos, se queda corto en la definición de otro. En inglés, otro (other), tiene una cierta connotación que no se aplica comúnmente en castellano. Otro, en una de sus acepciones…
Thinking outside the Venezuelan box
So the Telegraph paid 110,000 Sterling to a mole that leaked all the juicy information about MP’s expenses in Westminster. And I question myself: what is the combined amount of funds that victims of Chavez…
And this is how Venezuela’s caudillo deals with independent press
See how Eva Golinger gets all worked up in the background: you have made it to revolutionary Olympus Eva, well done!! Tomado de And this is how Venezuela’s caudillo deals with independent press
The Love of Money
The BBC has produced what it calls a «Series offering a definitive account of what happened to create the greatest financial crisis for eighty years», entitled The Love of Money. The series is remarkable in…
Stalinist Calvin Tucker ridiculed by Marxist
It appears that someone else has got Calvin Tucker’s number. It turns that a Marxist fellow, called Louis Proyect, has taken the trouble to ridicule Stalinist Tucker, well known in the Venezuelan blogosphere for his…