Draining the swamp has a ways to go in the intelligence community. A “Sense of Community Memorandum” prepared by a group of academic analysts from the federal government’s dozen or so security services downplays connections between Venezuela’s Maduro regime and…
Donald Trump’s second presidency has come with a surprising, but much-needed twist: making the Western Hemisphere a top foreign policy priority, once again. For decades, U.S. leaders have shied away from asserting dominance in the hemisphere, forgetting the very foundation…
I taught mathematics at the Universidad Simon Bolivar (USB) near Caracas from 1973 to 1975 and returned to teach summer classes in 2005 and again in 2008. My wife and I honeymooned in Venezuela in 1977. That doesn’t make me…
Nicolás Maduro has moved Christmas to Oct. 1 by imperial decree. Now I am just waiting for him to publish his conversations with St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary. I imagine the Holy Family in Nazareth quietly preparing their suitcases…
Prehistoric man started his development by learning to hunt. His next challenge was to try to get on an inflatable unicorn in the pool. Man’s repeated failure in the struggle with the unicorn changed human evolution and led to the…
The Venezuelan electoral council announced that incumbent President Nicolas Maduro won against Edmundo Gonzalez, and Venezuelan citizens are calling it fraud. In today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss the election results and analyze…
Venezuela is the holy Job of modern history. Their mixture of struggle and resignation, of resistance, of enduring unnecessary poverty and dispensable humiliation, is an example for the world. The people have once again voted against the mustachioed walrus. There…
Election results suggest that when President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela vowed to win the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election by “hook or by crook,” “crook” was the route he took. Nevertheless, opposition leaders and candidate Edmundo Gonzalaz haven’t given up their…
Maybe it’s a little early to comment on what looks like a fake election in Venezuela. After all, upon this writing it’s not quite 24 hours since that country’s elections bureau claimed its communist dictator Nicolás Maduro has won with…
