Thank you, Ingrid. Thank you for existing. Thank you for doing so much for human rights while leaving no doubt about the unnatural character of your captors, compared to the organizations that tirelessly denounced the…
… comes from an article in The Times about Zimbabwe: Mugabe is not unpopular in Zimbabwe today because his government has been autocratic and brutal. He’s not unpopular because the minority (yet significant) Matabele tribe…
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I was unable to attend, as an electoral observer, the autonomy referendum in Tarija being held today. I was present at the one in Santa Cruz, closely followed the…
This year, I visited Cuba twice. I’ve always felt a certain attraction to the island, perhaps because my grandmother was Cuban, from Caibarién. To be frank, my initial feelings during the first days were one…
Much has been said about the extraordinary Cuban blogger, Yoani Sánchez. Her blog, Generación Y, has sparked a significant revolution among both opponents and supporters of the Castro dictatorship. Recently, she received the prestigious Ortega…
INTERPOL has just announced what was an unavoidable conclusion: Colombia did not produce the files and data found on the laptops of the slain narco-terrorist Raúl Reyes, who was killed in Ecuador on March 1…
Santa Cruz, May 2, 2008 | I shared a flight from Miami to La Paz with former President of Bolivia Jorge Quiroga. After introducing myself at the start of the flight, I was left with…
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, May 6, 2008 | Che Guevara, the icon of the world’s resentful and revolutionary figures, was assassinated in La Higuera in October 1967, not far from here. More than forty…
There are so many reasons why Londoners should kick Livingstone out of City Hall that it’s hard to list them all. For me, near the top of the relevance list is Livingstone’s embrace of the…
It has been entertaining to witness the rivalry between current F1 champion Fernando Alonso and his teammate Lewis Hamilton. After having the chance to experience and analyze media reports in both English and Spanish, I’ve…
After my life-changing experience following Manuel Rosales throughout the presidential campaign in Venezuela last year, I returned to London convinced I had wasted some of the most productive years of my life. Reflecting on this…
Pernando Barrena is a spokesperson and one of the current leaders of the ‘political party’ Herri Batasuna. Under the government of President José María Aznar, it was deemed necessary to ban this “party” from participating…
And thus concludes the latest report published by the UN’s IPCC: While the science to provide policymakers with information on the impacts of climate change and adaptation potential has improved since the Third Assessment, many…
The newspaper El Progreso reported yesterday that 31 American citizens have been detained in the Gran Sabana region, near Santa Elena de Uairen at the Venezuela-Brazil border. The accusations of practicing medicine illegally allegedly led…
Local sources have confirmed that the former governor of Yaracuy, Eduardo Lapi, has escaped from the San Felipe prison. Lapi had been incarcerated for around a year. The prosecution never managed to file charges, which…