AUGUST 22, 2010 Rising street violence in Venezuela is beginning to hurt the president among his constituency. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY When a photograph of 12 chaotically strewn, naked corpses at the Bello Monte morgue in Caracas ran on the front page of the Venezuelan daily El Nacional 10 days ago, Hugo Chávez reacted with […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Fortune Underfoot Can Bolivia develop its mineral wealth—and undermine Hugo Chávez? BY Vanessa Neumann August 23, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 46 The stark white landscape of the Salar de Uyuni in the Potosí department of Bolivia is punctuated only by pink flamingos and salt pyramids being slowly shoveled
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THE AMERICAS JULY 19, 2010 Ortega Squeezes, the OAS Is Silent Nicaragua’s president subverts its constitution. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY In remarks to the local Nicaraguan press in mid-June, Vice President Jaime Morales celebrated Iranian plans to boost cooperation with his country. “I understand that there are many [Iranian] projects being studied and developed” for
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JULY 12, 2010 Chávez’s Assault on the Press Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of a television station critical of the Venezuelan government, has fled the country rather than face arbitrary arrest. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY ‘I came here to the United States and especially to Washington to look for justice.” It’s Friday afternoon and I’m sitting across
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BOOK REVIEW: The extremists in our midst By Wes Vernon 6:21 p.m., Friday, June 25, 2010 THE MANCHURIAN PRESIDENT: BARACK OBAMA‘S TIES TO COMMUNISTS, SOCIALISTS AND OTHER ANTI-AMERICAN EXTREMISTS By Aaron Klein with Brenda J. Elliott WND Books, $25.95, 271 pages Where is the House Committee on Un-American Activities when we need it? For decades,
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JULY 3, 2010 Independence Day in Siberia From a former Soviet Army truck driver, I learned the blessings of being an American. By HILARY KRIEGER My “there but for the grace of God” moment came on March 30, 2005. On that day, I found myself in the musty, bare apartment of 75-year-old Josef Katz, a
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JUNE 26, 2010 To Chavez, With Love Oliver Stone’s mash note to the dictators of Latin America. By RON RADOSH The red carpet was rolled out this Wednesday night for director Oliver Stone at the premiere of his new documentary, “South of the Border,” at the Silverdocs Film Festival in Silver Spring, Md. Mr. Stone
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MAY 3, 2010 Chávez Decaffeinates Venezuela By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY The late Milton Friedman once quipped that “if you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” Friedman was using hyperbole to make a point about central planning. Or so I thought until Hugo
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Rules for Radicals In 1971, Saul Alinsky wrote an entertaining classic on grassroots organizing titled Rules for Radicals. Those who prefer cooperative tactics describe the book as out-of-date. Nevertheless, it provides some of the best advice on confrontational tactics. Alinsky begins this way: What follows is for those who want to change the world from
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With Iran and Venezuela in political, economic and military cahoots, Tehran has gained a foothold in South American. Now Nicaragua is at risk of being added to the list of authoritarian governments aligned with Venezuela and by association, its Islamic ally. WSJ.com – Opinion: The Ortega-Chavez Axis*
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