Grover Cleveland twisting the tail of the British Lion, editorial cartoon in Puck on the Venezuelan crisis, 1895
Source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/original-1980s-soviet-anti-american-propaganda-po-200-c-61b495894d You may remember the luminaries of the self-proclaimed "anti-imperialist left" from such greatest hits as 'The CCP is putting Uyghurs in concentration camps for their own good' and.
This is not a post on the Venezuelan situation per se. To be clear, Maduro is terrible, but so is the opposition, who are dominated by the sort of racists.
Venezuela is a complete disaster. Whatever potential the Chavez revolution had to help the Venezuelan people has been completely destroyed. Maduro's incompetence combined with his contempt for democratic processes has.
Remind me never to turn on Meet the Press, even for 2 seconds. I do today, or more accurately my wife is watching it because as a Latin American historian.
This takedown of a FiveThirtyEight article on Venezuela is pretty complete and damning. Once again, data is in no way "objective" and Silver's belief that it is has lead to.
The Venezuelans are giving Chavez the full Lenin treatment: embalming, display, the whole kit and caboodle. Very exciting.
The coverage of Hugo Chavez's death has been almost universally terrible. But this piece from Associated Press business reporter Pamela Simpson takes the cake: Chavez invested Venezuela's oil wealth into.
