Cuba's Protests Are a Sign of Imperial Overreach
Busy exploiting its Venezuelan colony, the communist regime failed to see the discontent brewing at home.
Busy exploiting its Venezuelan colony, the communist regime failed to see the discontent brewing at home.
Ignore the hype: Latin American immigration is (still) the city’s greatest strength.
A Chavez-style socialist is the leading contender to become the nation's next president.
The country just gave almost 2 million Venezuelans a pathway to citizenship.
"It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money."
Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. It's out of gasoline.
The documentary La Causa is a raw look into these self-organized societies, complete with taxes, courts, and a strict "thug code.”
If the Latino vote is to determine America’s future, it might help both parties to look southward and attempt to understand the people they want to sway on their own terms.
Despite economic ruin in their native country, Venezuelans have no reason to stay in increasingly locked-down Colombia.
The DOJ has accused Maduro of using "cocaine as a weapon" to devastate American cities.
The granddaughter of Cuban and Hungarian refugees says that political, economic, cultural, and sexual freedom are all intertwined and non-negotiable.
Raíces Venezolanas, or Venezuelan Roots, gives household items and a heavy dose of moral support to immigrant families showing up in South Florida.
Good luck with that.
Sen. Rand Paul's new book discusses the horrible things that befall countries that tried it.
Rand Paul takes on socialist arguments about Venezuela, Scandinavia, and fairness.
The Brexit architect explains what the media got wrong about Brexit, the rise of "Bannonism and Bernie-ism," and what went wrong in Venezuela.
One of Brexit's architects says leaving the EU is a victory for free trade and decentralization and warns that a Corbyn victory will destroy the U.K.'s future.
Venezuela's failed collectivist experiment brought death and despair to a once-prosperous country.
The council's design all but ensures absurdities like this.
Cryptocurrency is a human rights issue, explains Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation.
Attempts to centrally plan an economy ruin both civic life and life's pleasures.
A new report from the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights finds a "shockingly high" number of politically motivated extrajudicial killings.
Plus: The student censors come for Camille Paglia.
More violence hit Venezuela today following opposition leader Juan Guaidó's calls for the military to abandon the Maduro government.
There is at least one point on which Washington and Moscow find themselves at odds: Venezuela.
Media personalities claim socialism didn't cause Venezuela's collapse, but it did. Here's how.
"Chavez racked up an economic record that a legacy-obsessed American president could only dream of achieving."
Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin used the motto, "Land to the peasants, peace to the nations, bread to the starving." Sounds good, right?
The push for intervention is no surprise, and it should be given no quarter.
The perils-and profits-of being identity-focused in business, content, and audience
Like Hillary Clinton, the senator seems to think that Libya is a foreign policy success story.
The president's speech was a mixed bag on foreign policy.
José Ignacio Guédez, a member of the oppostion party La Causa R, says economic sanctions and political pressure will help restore democracy.
In Mercenaries 2, China and the U.S. fight over pieces of Venezuela, before the entire country is wrecked by a nuclear warhead.
It's time to admit that Venezuela's "21st century socialism" failed.
Juan Guaidó declared himself to be the interim president. President Trump and other world leaders have acknowledged him as the country's new head of state.
People getting starry eyed about socialism should look to Venezuela for some important warning signs.
People who fled Cuba and Venezuela warn Americans not to embrace socialism.
Journalist and Soho Forum co-founder Gene Epstein on economists' romance with strongmen and his upcoming debate with Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara.
To assume that governments do better at keeping currencies stable ignores parts of the world.
Venezuela attempts to combat economic illiteracy with more economic illiteracy.
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