VENEZUELA

In Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro’s government hanging by a thread

In Venezuela, Iris Varela, minister of prisons, a young lawyer with fiery eyes and incendiary speech, has warned that she has already prepared the cell in which Henrique Capriles will be imprisoned. I believe her unreservedly.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Lessons from the North Korea crisis

There are three lessons to be learned from what’s happening in the pitiful, totalitarian madhouse known as North Korea.

Nicolás Maduro, the bird, and the future of Venezuela

Nicolás Maduro became aware that a little bird was talking to him. At first, he thought it was the Chogüi bird, a usually friendly and chatty creature, but because he is a shrewd person, trained by the Cubans in the various types of warbles, he quickly realized that it was Hugo Chávez.

YOANI SÁNCHEZ

Yoani Sánchez: An effective voice against the Castro dictatorship

Yoani Sánchez visits Miami. It is the most difficult stop in her long tour. Everywhere, like a bullfighter hailed after a good afternoon, she has been carried on the shoulders of the crowd. She will also triumph in Miami, but her task will be a bit harder.

CUBA

Don’t be fooled — there’s no real change in Cuba

Raúl Castro’s regime wants to change the general perception about Cuba. It is intent on displaying an image that fundamental changes are taking place on the island, but that’s not true.

VENEZUELA

Legacy of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez will be hard to erase

What does Hugo Chávez leave to the Venezuelan people? Three legacies, all of which are poisoned: a harebrained way to govern, the mindless 21st-Century socialism, and a neopopulist model based on welfare-patronage.

VENEZUELA

Let us see Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, dead or alive

Panama’s former ambassador to the Organization of American States, Dr. Guillermo Cochez, a person who is usually well informed, affirms that Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, died a few days ago and challenges the government of that country to prove otherwise. How? In the only credible manner: by producing the sick man or, failing that, his cadaver.