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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JUNE 28, 2010 Why Lift the Travel Ban to Cuba Now? Waves of Canadian, European and Latin American visitors haven’t changed a thing. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Honduran Supreme Court’s decision to order the arrest of Manuel Zelaya, a power-hungry Hugo Chávez acolyte who tried to remain president
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MAY 29, 2010 The Man Who Saved Colombia Álvaro Uribe By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Bogotá Excerpt from the article re legalizing drugs: Does that tell us something about the inefficacy of the war on drugs as a way to reduce demand? He sees where I am going with this line of argument against the current
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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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