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There’s clear and convincing evidence that strongman Nicolás Maduro suffered a humiliating defeat in last month’s election. But no one should’ve been surprised that he claimed victory and refused to cede power. Then, on Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration held secret talks to offer Maduro amnesty. The administration made a… Read more.
Cinco de Mayo Cinco de Mayo marks the unlikely victory of 4,000 scrappy Mexican fighters over 8,000 French soldiers on May 5, 1862. Their victory at the Battle of Puebla did not stop the French invasion of Mexico. But it boosted the morale of the Mexican fighters and became a symbol of resistance and national pride, celebrated… Read more.
Venezuela votes to seize Guyana territory Land grabs are rivaling military coups as the trending event in geopolitics. Venezuela is mounting the latest land grab. It is doing so today through a referendum on annexing an oil-rich region of Guyana. The referendum will ask Venezuelans … if they agree with creating a new state called Guayana Esequiba in the Essequibo region, granting… Read more.
Three years ago, Washington was hailing Venezuela’s opposition leader, Juan Guaidó. He was the most celebrated exiled leader since France’s Charles de Gaulle. President Trump even invited Guaidó as his guest of honor at the 2020 State of the Union Address. US Abandons Venezuela’s Opposition Leader Guaidó I was neither impressed nor encouraged. The title… Read more.
Unfortunately, President Jair Bolsonaro seems hell-bent on living up to his reputation as the “Trump of the Tropics.” Polls have consistently shown former president Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva handily defeating him today – by double digits. Yet Bolsonaro has spent the last few weeks whipping his supporters into a frenzy with Trumpian lies about… Read more.
The comparisons between the killing of Genivaldo de Jesus Santos this week and the killing of George Floyd two years ago this week are as uncanny as they are unavoidable. Here is how Sky News reported it on Friday: _________ Videos showing a Brazilian man dying while trapped in the boot of a police car… Read more.
Ukraine is begging NATO to enforce a no-fly zone to help it fend off Russian bombs. Short of that, it’s begging for fighter jets. But NATO leaders fear both would escalate the War in Ukraine into World War III . Therefore, NATO is refusing. For obvious reasons, refusing to enforce a no-fly zone makes sense.… Read more.
Most Canadians would like to think they are more civil than their American neighbors. Except nothing betrays their thinking quite like the “aboriginal sin” that has been haunting them lately. I am referring to belated reckoning for the inferior and often dehumanizing way they treated indigenous people throughout their history. This finally forced Canadians to… Read more.
Maduro Holds onto Power in Venezuela Venezuela is reeling under President Maduro’s leadership. He’s ruling more like an autocratic tyrant than a socialist revolutionary. Venezuela’s interim president, Juan Guaido, has announced his intention of returning to his homeland [today] from Ecuador, a move that would likely result in his arrest by Venezuelan authorities. … Last… Read more.
Haiti held the Miss Haiti beauty pageant on May 16. But the winner reflects more White hope than Black beauty. I published the blog post “Black Is Beautiful! Just Not in South Africa” a few months ago. In it, I referenced a high schooler who repeated the famous Kenneth Clarke experiment. Clarke’s experiment in 1954 found that Black schoolgirls preferred White… Read more.
