ADDED 11/01/2018
FROM | Venezuelanalysis
BY Cira Pascual Marquina
Born in 1938, Julio Escalona began his revolutionary activity at an early age in the MIR (Left Revolutionary Movement). Later he helped to found the urban guerrilla OR (Organization of Revolutionaries) and its political arm the Socialist League. A professor of economy in Venezuela’s Central University, he has also been part of Venezuela’s UN delegation. Today, while […]
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ADDED 08/22/2018
FROM 08/22/2018 | Venezuelanalysis
BY Fernando Bossi and Cira Pascual Marquina
Political analyst and advisor to President Chavez, Fernando Bossi, looks at the striking parallels between the reactionary offensives in two Latin American countries. Argentinian internationalist Fernando Bossi has a lifelong commitment to Latin American unification that has expressed itself in diverse educational and political projects. Among these were the People’s Amphictyonic Congresses that took place […]
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ADDED 07/21/2018
FROM 07/21/2018 | Boing Boing
BY CORY DOCTOROW
A new report from the Institute For the Future on “state-sponsored trolling” documents the rise and rise of government-backed troll armies who terrorize journalists and opposition figures with seemingly endless waves of individuals who bombard their targets with vile vitriol, from racial slurs to rape threats. The report traces the origin of the phenomenon to a series […]
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ADDED 07/06/2018
FROM 07/06/2018 | Boston Globe
BY Rachelle Krygier and Anthony Faiola
CARACAS — By running stories of official brutality and corruption, this nation’s largest independent newspaper — El Nacional — threatened Venezuela’s mighty and defended its meek. Now the paper has found itself covering perhaps its most crucial story — its own fight to stay alive. A judicial case against the 75-year-old outlet — lodged by […]
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ADDED 06/06/2018
FROM 06/06/2018 | New Republic
BY Ioan Grillo
When the early returns of the November 26 presidential election in Honduras began coming in, supporters of the leftist opposition candidate, Salvador Nasralla, had cause to celebrate. With 57 percent of polling stations counted, he had a five-point lead, a seemingly irreversible advantage. But then the vote-counting system went dark, victim of a computer glitch. A day and […]
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