All Entries Tagged With: "chavez"
Human Rights and Perpetual Presidents in Latin America
I’ve spent the last few days in the great state of Maine with one of my best friends (I took the pic on the right). He called me at the beginning of the week and asked me if I wanted to escape for a few days and – seeing that most of the work I [...]
Hugo Chavez, “Senator?” Al Franken, and Hustler’s Bailout
Tin-Pot Populism
The mouth of the south Hugo Chavez is gracing the headlines again today. He’s the hero in a cast including Joe Kennedy, Citgo-Venezuela, and low-income Massachusetts residents. President Chavez’s Citgo-Venezuela Heating Oil Program (which provides heating oil at sub-market rates to various low-income housing areas in the United States, including Boston …aka Kennedy [...]
Can Leonel Fernandez be Trusted?
Leonel Fernandez (President of the Dominican Republic) recently sent the Dominican congress a list of over 100 changes he’d like to make to the constitution. Here’s how a UN representative characterizes those proposed reforms (from DR1):
Dr. Cristobal Rodriguez, a constitutional specialist with the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP), says the proposed constitutional reform would give [...]