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24 Mar 2017, 8:00 am
” Hitchens also reminds us that Argentina’s “Dirty War” was but one component of Operation Condor, “a machinery of cross-border assassination, abduction, torture and intimidation, coordinated between the secret police forces of Pinochet’s Chile, Stroessner’s Paraguay, Videla’s Argentina, and other regional caudillos. [read post]
15 Jan 2024, 12:35 am
Sus críticas a terratenientes (“ignorantes, incapaces de distinguir el trigo de la cebada”), al profesorado universitario (“momias de haraganes y de cobardes intrigantes”) a los políticos (“que hacen promesas sin saber lo que hacen, que estrechan manos de personas a quien no conoce, que sonríen siempre con una estúpida sonrisa automática”), a Azaña (“no hay nada más peligroso en política que un… [read post]
9 Mar 2013, 5:24 am
All of this by way of setting the table for an attempt to make sense of the Venezuelan presidency (1999-2013) and legacy—largely but not solely as Chavismo—of Hugo Chávez (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013).[5] Two of the articles we’ll mention could be considered exceptions to the generalizations above: perhaps the foremost being the New York Times’ decision to publish a cogent, fitting and fair memorial op-ed by Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva, the former president… [read post]
24 Feb 2019, 2:01 pm
(Pix Credit (c) Larry Catá Backer 2017)In this post and those that follow we will begin to flesh out what we see as the great challenges of democracy in illiberal states, and the methods undertaken by the Caribbean (Cuban) form of Marxism Leninism, to meet those challenges. [read post]
27 Dec 2016, 8:29 am
Vallejo Pedestrian Critically Injured Hi, I’m Ed Smith, a Vallejo pedestrian accident attorney. [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 6:00 am
Michael KlarmanFor the Symposium on Michael Klarman, The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution. [read post]
23 May 2011, 4:27 pm
¿En qué momento se obnubiló Mario Vargas Llosa para terminar votando por Ollanta Humala, a quien describió como “nazi, racista, payaso, cavernario, estúpido, discípulo y protegido de Hugo Chávez y caudillo bárbaro”? [read post]
