On his October 11th national TV show "Hello President", Chavez denounced the Nobel Prize winner as a "dissident counterrevolutionary who...probably violated Chinese laws.

 Debate in Venezuela is divided. Did Chavez make this statement (which isn't really in the core competency of the Venezuelan… Read full post »

Fidel Castro is now trying to weasel out of his unguarded criticisms of the Cuban model of state socialism--which he made to Atlantic Monthly reporter Jeffrey Goldberg.

 Though he admits that the reporter quotes him accurately--"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore--"  he t… Read full post »

Venezuelan national television recently showed--in  prime time--the macabre ritual of the digging up of the sarcophagus of Simon Bolivar,  and the unwrapping and presentation of his skeleton to the public.

 President Chavez says he believes that Bolivar didn't die of natural causes; th… Read full post »

Venezuela has begun the prosecution of  people for tweeting.

A relatively new technology, tweeting was used recently by Iranians who opposed the election fraud which occurred in that country; without tweeting, international information about the protests would have been lacking.

The two tweeter… Read full post »

Striking testimony from Ligia Bolivar, human rights activist in Venezuela, while giving evidence before the International Human Rights Committee of Canada's Parliament:

Mr. Massimo Pacetti, Liberal, St. Leonard-St.Michel (Montreal)

 " I have a question for my own information. On page… Read full post »