In the early hours of January 31, one of Venezuela’s largest and most important synagogues, Maripérez (popularly known as Papelón), was raided, ransacked, and defaced by a commando militia group. This news comes directly to me from Sam...
Based on the results of a survey by the analytical center of Yuri Levada, carried out last year, Russians named as the countries most unfriendly, antagonistically disposed towards Russia: Georgia, the USA, Ukraine, Estonia, the Baltic states...
Benedict Mander at the Financial Times points out that the crash in oil prices is causing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to abandon some of the more expensive diplomatic activities that the government has been using to up its influence in the re...
It looks like we’re not the only ones paying attention to the parallel trends of violence and insecurity in both Russia and Venezuela. Today UNESCO chief Koïchiro Matsuura condemned both the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Orel Zambra...
Yesterday El Nuevo Herald published an article about an evening mass held in Key Biscayne, Florida by the Venezuelan expatriate to draw attention to the plight of political prisoners in the country. Below is a flyer from the event followed b...
The following is from an interview with Charles A. Kupchan of the Council on Foreign Relations, republished in the New York Times. Kupchan suggests that despite low oil prices, political unrest may lead the Kremlin to further adventures in L...
Today Robert Amsterdam had the following opinion article published in the Washington Post. To read more about the Russia-Venezuela relationship, click here, here, and here. To read more about Eligio Cedeño, click here. Partners In Crim...
Today at noon in Washington DC, Barack Obama was sworn in as the President of the United States. It was hard not to get swept up in the excitement of such a historical moment, even among us hardened cynics who may be wary of impossibly high ...
Former Secretary of State Larry Eagleburger has a shocking confession about Russia – he apologizes to inform us that he thinks U.S. policies are partly to blame for the deterioration in relations with Russia: “From my perspective, and ...
When U.S. President James Monroe signed into law a doctrine outlining the new rules preventing European powers from colonizing and/or otherwise interfering in the political events of Latin America in 1823, the vague concept of spheres of influence...
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