Drink More Ovaltine
The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison.
Joseph G. St. Clair
· 11 min read
Latin America
A collection of 12 posts
Foreign Power, Local Politics
Where local collaboration is absent, foreign intervention imposes enormous costs or simply stalls. Where it exists, intervention can succeed with surprising velocity.
Pablo Policzer
· 10 min read
The Pete Hegseth Debacle
The unpopular secretary of defence may not survive his latest scandal.
Dilan Esper
· 8 min read
Voters and Quotas: Crunch Time for Chile’s Millennial Revolutionaries
The proposal for a radical identitarian constitution has set off a popular counterrevolution in the run-up to a fateful referendum on September 4th.
Rasmus Sonderriis
· 17 min read
Sandinista! The US Left and Nicaragua
Recent events in Nicaragua have caused stirrings of unease among many of Ortega's previously loyal US supporters, and in some cases, strident criticism.
Ronald Radosh
· 18 min read
The Language of Totalitarian Dehumanization
A week before the massive protests erupted in Cuba, I was celebrating Fourth of July at a friend’s house in Oakland, California, and listening to her tell me stories about her adventures there. She is a Jewish red diaper baby and today seems to identify as some sort of
Clifton Ross
· 6 min read
Cuba’s Doomed War on Independent Art
There were seven police officers, all dressed as civilians. They arrived at the improvised Havana music studio on the morning of Monday, September 28th, kicked down the door and found their target—Maykel Castillo Pérez, a well-known Cuban rapper and human rights activist who was in the process of
Jorge C. Carrasco
· 4 min read
Chile’s Elites Are Creating Another Latin American Populist Meltdown. Voters Must Stop Them
The main hope for Chile lies with the requirement that voters approve any new constitution.
Axel Kaiser
· 7 min read
The Coming Post-COVID Global Order
The pandemic crisis is rapidly becoming a civilizational crisis.
Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger
· 11 min read
Four Decades of Terror: Rio de Janeiro’s Never-Ending 'Drug War'
Rio’s futile, endless war will continue. Like going to the beach, or dancing samba, waging war is a way of life in Rio de Janeiro.
Damian Platt
· 16 min read
How Venezuelan Democracy Lost the Battle Against Castro
An interview with Venezuelan journalist Orlando Avendaño.
Jorge C. Carrasco
· 6 min read
60 Years On: Reflections on the Revolution in Cuba
It would be decades before the people fully understood the fraudulence of 1959’s heady idealism, but it was corrupt from the start.
Jorge C. Carrasco
· 6 min read