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The international community – particularly Washington – has steered clear of confrontations with the irascible bully Hugo Chávez. However, failing to stand with the democratic elements in Venezuela today may consign that country to political turmoil under an illegitimate regime. read more
Update, 5PM: Venezuela’s vice president has announced that Hugo Chávez is dead. Cancer-stricken Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez was returned secretly to Cuba last Friday for urgent medical attention, according to an article authored by Washington-based journalist Emily Blasco, published today by … read more
Readers and listeners to President Obama’s speech today at the National Defense University, billed as a major address on terrorism policy, could be forgiven for thinking the speech just a re-hash of old policies.
Since his inauguration, President Obama’s gullibility about Syria’s brutal dictatorship and its ally Russia’s Middle East objectives has injured America’s stakes in the region.
