18/08/2012 | Frente Externo
Venezuela - Finding George Orwell in Venezuela
In 2005, Venezuela became an official Territory Free of Illiteracy. A massively funded government literacy drive achieved, in just over a year, what decades of neoliberal neglect had failed to deliver: a country where every single person knows how to read.
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03/08/2012 | Frente Externo
Venezuela - Venezuela’s Elusive Voters
“How do you imagine the voter who will decide this election?”.
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21/07/2012 | Frente Externo
Venezuela - Chávez, Communication Hegemon
Sometimes on road trips in Venezuela, I like to play a little game I call “find a sane radio station.” The rules are simple: I keep pressing the “seek” button on the tuner until I land on a station that broadcasts even a smidgeon of criticism of the government.
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07/07/2012 | Frente Externo
Opinion - The Incredible Shrinking State Department
Montreal — The controversial impeachment of Paraguay’s president, Fernando Lugo, is quickly turning into a kind of Rorschach test of Latin American politics: the reactions to it say more than the event does itself.
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05/07/2012 | Frente Externo
Paraguay: The Venezuelan angle
Picture the scene: It's July 1974, and congress is on the brink of impeaching President Nixon. As the procedure moves forward, Britain's foreign minister comes to Washington, D.C. in a desperate diplomatic bid to save a key ally from losing power.
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27/04/2012 | Frente Externo
Venezuela - Hugo Chávez & The Supremes
It happened every week. On Friday mornings, Venezuela’s top prosecutor, the justice minister, the solicitor general, assorted Supreme Court justices, police chiefs and top officials would meet in the vice president’s office to review politically sensitive court cases and decide how they should be handled. In each instance, the vice president had the last word: dismissal, acquittal or conviction.
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03/03/2012 | Frente Externo
Latin America - Venezuela’s Gladiators
Coliseos (coliseums), as inmates call these organized knife fights, have become a mainstay of prison life in Uribana.
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03/03/2012 | Frente Externo
Latin America - Venezuela’s Gladiators
Coliseos (coliseums), as inmates call these organized knife fights, have become a mainstay of prison life in Uribana.
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