Category Tag: Alek Boyd

A few days ago, we published in Miguel’s blog a public letter in response to the 100 or so ‘Latin America experts’ who criticised HRW’s report on Venezuela, so there’s no point in rehashhing its…

An open letter to the more than 100 Latin American «experts» who criticized the report on Venezuela by Human Rights Watch Dear Sirs: We have read your letter criticizing the report A Decade Under Chavez:…

It must be admitted, Human Rights Watch (HRW) ha puesto el dedo en la llaga. In the past months, HRW not only managed to enrage the ‘democratic government’ of Venezuela, with a report that prompted…

Todo comenzó en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII. Por aquel tiempo, tanto Europa como los Estados Unidos (EEUU) estaban viviendo procesos políticos de gran significación. En ambos casos, diferentes sectores se habían rebelado contra…

Venezuela awoke this morning to a distinctively different political landscape: Hugo Chavez has lost in the most populated areas of the country, namely Caracas, Miranda, Carabobo and Zulia. The loss of Caracas is all the…

Desde hace mucho tiempo vengo pensando, como bien dice la frase que titula este blog, que un apóstata del libre albedrío, por razones de índole político o religioso, se niega a si mismo, ya que…

… comes from an article in the The Times about Zimbabwe: Mugabe is not unpopular in Zimbabwe today because his Government has been autocratic and brutal. He is not unpopular because the minority (but substantial)…

In the course of this year I have visited Cuba in two occasions. I have always felt certain attraction to the island, perhaps this was compounded by the fact that my grandmother was Cuban, from…