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Everyone found these images very difficult to digest. How could we justify that he, Luis Almagro, who had become like El Cid championing for freedom in South America, was suddenly affectionate with the Bolivian tyrant, who was…
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Spanish - Pay careful attention: "The battle for Venezuela is the battle for the continent and the world. The triumph of the revolutionary forces in Venezuela represents the triumph of all the forces of the left in the entire world,…
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Hermann Tertsch is a free man. The first time I read his work was in early 2017. In an article published in ABC, he defended the great values and denounced the totalitarianism intrinsic to Islamic movements. Soon, Tertsch’s texts became…
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Spanish - “In the presence of Almighty God, Venezuela, I swear to formally assume the duties of the national executive as president in charge of achieving the end of the usurpation, a transitional government, and free elections.” It…
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Spanish - We had not walked more than forty meters from his apartment when a young African-American man, with noble gestures and a tasteful dressing sense, took off his hat to bow and say, “Mr. Ambassador, hope you have a nice day!”…
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Spanish - What would happen if the region and the world foolishly continue to opt for diplomatic means to try to resolve the Venezuelan crisis? What would happen if they continue to reject, for the most part, the option of the use of…
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Spanish - According to a commission of Venezuelas the National Assembly, $11.0 billion belonging to state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela, PDVSA, vanished due to various corruption schemes between 2004 and 2014. Few can escape. The…
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Spanish - A little while ago, I went back to watch my second favorite movie —2001: A Space Odyssey— the first, without a doubt, is the Godfather. In one of the opening scenes, a group of apes, always subdued by local carnivores and…
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The circumstances of this interview are peculiar. On 17th June, Lester Toledo, the Venezuelan government’s international coordinator for Humanitarian Aid, wrote to me on Twitter to interview him in Cucuta. I responded to him that I…
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Recently, a dear friend said to me, “the problem is not the regime. It is the system." I agree. The problem is the system. Once you are a part of the system, it corrupts you. The system compels you to compromise your principles. It…
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Can a party, whose primary aspiration is precisely to abolish the democratic system, participate in and develop the system? Should the PSUV be outlawed? Several intellectuals and activists answer the question Many have proposed, not…
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The negotiations in Norway have triggered aversion. The information has been handled irresponsibly, similar to the experience of the Dominican Republic in 2016, in the time of the pre-dialogue. On the 23rd of January earlier this…
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