Nicolas Maduro
Was the raid on Venezuela real?
From the very start, there was something weird about Operation Absolute Resolve. The official story went something like this: after…
Immigration is foreign policy now
Invade the world, invite the world. That pithy phrase was invented in the 2000s by Steve Sailer, the right-wing writer,…
Nicolás Maduro’s How to Win Friends and Influence People
Cockburn stumbled into The Spectator’s New York office this morning afflicted with that annual January woe: the post-holiday blues. He…
Can the ‘Donroe doctrine’ really change Venezuela?
Caracas During the early hours of Saturday January 3, an official statement from the White House, signed by President Trump,…
Trump says the US has captured Venezuela’s Maduro
Donald Trump’s undeclared war in Venezuela against the Marxist regime of President Nicolas Maduro has erupted into the open. Trump…
Why fracking matters
Sigmund Freud famously noted that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. In the case of fracking, even Freud would…
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How to get away with being a tyrant
Last week, in an effort to understand what that left-wing hero Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela, must be suffering, Hieron,…
Fear and foie gras: a Caracas notebook
A man stopped me in the street in Caracas and grabbed my hand. I was alarmed, but tried not to…
Portrait of the Week: Brexitry, Jaguar and the Lib-Dems’ non-leader
Home Britain was overwhelmed by Brexitry. Before flying off to an EU summit in Salzburg, Theresa May, the Prime Minister,…
In chaotic Venezuela, life is better in prison
‘I murder people!’ says Elanger matter-of-factly in response to my question about what he does for a living. From the…
Corbyn’s fallen idols
Jeremy Corbyn finally broke his silence on Venezuela this week, but in the manner of a man who has his…
