Communism and the Haitian fallacy
«They’re inviting us to change to the capitalist system, not to the capitalism of Switzerland but to that of Haiti, the one they dream of imposing on us.»
El comunismo y la falacia haitiana
“Nos invitan a que cambiemos al sistema capitalista, pero no al de Suiza, sino al de Haití, que es el que sueñan con imponernos”.
Tillerson’s Latin America visit positive, but work in progress
The reactions to this idea were good overall. Despite some obstacles, Tillerson’s visit launched an important and unprecedented process.
The Venezuela Petro CryptoCurrency’s Short Life Span
Former Venezuela Presidential Chief of Staff Beatrice Rangel on Venezuela’s latest crackpot idea: the PetroMoneda, a cryptocurrency supposedly backed by oil that is neither crypto, neither currency nor backed by anything except the same government that has brought 2800% inflation and 100,000% devaluation to existing currency the bolivar. How much do you want to buy?
Castroist-Chavist dictatorships make up, divide and manipulate the opposition.
In democracy, the political opposition has the possibility and the right to enter into covenants with or against the government, the opposition can be diverse and plural and can be divided or united by ideological, pragmatic, or even interest issues.
Dictaduras castrochavistas fabrican, dividen y manipulan oposición
Fabrican su oposición escogiendo a quienes la integrarán y les imponen lo que deben hacer, con el claro límite de que quien sea opositor de verdad tendrá persecución, cárcel, exilio o muerte como destino
There’s no worse nostalgia than missing what never ever happened
Probably that obsessive search for a mythical Golden Age that Trump keeps repeating in his speeches has to do with a characteristic of the conservative personality.
No hay nostalgia peor que añorar lo que nunca jamás sucedió
Probablemente esa búsqueda obsesiva de una mítica época dorada que Trump repite en sus discursos tiene que ver con una característica de la personalidad conservadora.
“Estoy firmando su sentencia de muerte”
Por Carlos Ramirez Lopez
Publicado el viernes 2 de febrero, 2018
Iran In Latin America: Identifying The Problem and How We Need To Confront It
Venezuela’s own Vice President, Tarek Al Aissami, has been a key liaison between Venezuela and Iran.