It's hard to take chavistas seriously when they try to hide the Chávez government's obvious failure in terms of infrastructure. We k...

With the World Social Forum meeting due to be held in Caracas later this month, I figure at least some of the 80,000 kids planning to trave...

Iran has an estimated three million to seven million Internet users, the most in the Middle East. Between 65,000 and 100,000 Iranians post...

Erm...ahem...[wipe away egg on face] cough-cough...post eliminated because it was all wrong...

Think too much has been made of Chavez's "christ-killer" remarks? The devil is in the context... 1. Iran said it will resume ...

Barquisimeto, Jan 09 2006. ABN.- The National Council for the Protection of Children and Adolescents in Barquisimeto opened an administrat...

If there's one thing we should've learned from watching Chávez tumble his way to a dictatorship, it's that there's a price t...

Prominent Jewish rights group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday of using what it said wer...

Thanks to Katy for pointing to this typically flabbergasting bit of Chavez non-sense. In the context of a long-winded attack against evil, ...

Translated: Endogenous Viaduct...don't be surprised, look at Vargas State... Venezuela is now screwed...

Yesterday, I had a good laugh about it, but all kidding aside the closure of the Caracas-La Guaira highway has staggering implications. The ...

It's a bit silly and probably a little cruel, I know, but I have this little joke I like to play when I go down to Maiquetia to pick up ...

Here's a quick theory about the level of authoritarian repression you're likely to see in Latin America's growing crop of leftis...

Not freaked out by the prospect of a Nuclear Chávez yet? This may be a good time to start... CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Thieves ...

Evo Morales has been swept into power, and he is soon to be followed by Chávez-clone Ollanta Humala who already seems to be benefitting from...

To save or to consume? It's the most fundamental economic choice of them all. If you have $10 in your pocket you can buy beer or put it ...

WashPost op-ed columnist Jackson Diehl's take on the year to come from a gringo perspective... Here's a sad but safe new year's ...

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit my best wishes for a socially responsible, gender neutral, celebration of the winter s...

Venezuela is one of the most violent countries on earth. Averaging 43 murders every single day, street crime in Venezuela can fairly be s...

10. There's no coffee in Cuban supermarkets, either. 9. Chávez drank it all waiting for Evo Morales' election results. 8. They are s...

Most chavistas accuse us in the opposition of being rabid lunatics who only see their own side of the story, or something along those lines....

Well, I'm on my way back to Europe now, and I thought I'd write one last WTO post to bring together some of my thoughts about the we...

Well I'll be danged...they reached a...erm...a deal?...ummm...well, they reached a something in Hong Kong after all! I don't want ...

It's 1:15 p.m. in Hong Kong. Officially the conference has less than 4 hours to go, and ministers are still locked in confidential ...

Maybe the French Agriculture minister had a point after all. Chuck Grassley, the powerful head of the US Senate's Agriculture Committee,...

Confused about what the big WTO fight over agriculture is all about? Pietra Rivoli writes a lucid little summary of the main issue and the ...

[Sorry to stay stuck on the Hong Kong thing, everyone, but I thought it was time to demonstrate I can be obsessed with more than one thing a...

Venezuela has no final electoral results so far. This, despite the fact that the Venezuelan Ministry of Electoral Affairs , which is control...

Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim is having the time of his life this week. After a quarter century of grandiose but empty declaration...

It's day 3 in Hong Kong and I have to say this conference is full of surprises. Figuring I'd been spending enough time with third wo...

In his spare time from trying to save the World Trade Regime, WTO Director General Pascal Lamy is blogging the Ministerial...

I think a big part of the reason people find the WTO so hard to understand is that trade diplomats refuse on principle to speak plain Englis...