Last week, Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s co-president (last year he promoted his wife, Rosario Murillo, to... The post Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua: revolutions betrayed first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Last Monday, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council announced that the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, had comfortably... The post How badly did Maduro lose? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
I have often despaired at the way in which seemingly progressive leaders in Latin and South America show great initial promise and then drift into an autocracy not unlike their…
In the early days after the Russian revolution, leftists would visit the country in order to view this experiment in collectivist society. They would be welcomed, given the grand tour…
