There are gestures, and then there are kneelings. This week in Washington, María Corina Machado , the longtime face of the Venezuelan resistance to its authoritarian government, walked into the Oval Office and placed her Nobel Peace Prize medal into Donald Trump’s hands like a medieval supplicant offering tribute to a monarch. Around the world, […]
Political amnesia: The day Edmundo González became optional Well, that didn’t take long. South Florida’s elected leaders have perfected the political pirouette — and Venezuela just watched them spin 180 degrees without missing a beat. After months — months — of pounding their chests, waving flags, and solemnly declaring Edmundo González Urrutia the rightful president of […]
Trump talks oil, we watch a regime change in real time So let’s dispense with the fairy tale right away. This past weekend, the United States didn’t “assist democracy,” didn’t “help the Venezuelan people,” and didn’t conduct some tidy law-enforcement operation against a bad hombre with a cocaine habit. The U.S. bombed a sovereign nation […]
Proving that he is a better advocate for democracy than a lawmaker, former State Rep. Carlos Trujillo, who left his post in 2018 to be the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), was on point this week at a special session on the ongoing repression and violation of human rights in Venezuela. […]
After years of quiet, behind-the-scenes absence — with just a few recent Tallahassee and Miami sightings — former Congressman David Rivera is in the news again — sued by a U.S. subsidiary of the Venezuelan regime-owned petroleum enterprise for breach of contract on $50 million deal to purportedly grease the wheels for the company (read: government) […]
Add Miami-Dade to the growing list of governments and politicians that recognize Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela. The county commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution sponsored by Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz to join the United States in recognizing the president of Venezuela’s congress as the new leader. The commission also approved a separate Diaz resolution […]