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Bolivarian Baloney: Why Simón Bolívar is a Terrible Mascot for Venezuela’s Socialist Party

— Feb 15, 2019

Venezuela’s famous (or, perhaps, infamous) “Bolivarian Revolution” has been in the spotlight lately as the country’s political crisis threatens to spiral into counterrevolution and civil war. Named for the great Liberator of northern South America, Simón Bolívar, the Bolivarian Revolution (or alternately Bolivarismo) is the name given to the the socialist reorganization of Venezuelan society […]

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Who’s Cheating Who? Mexico and the United States

— Jan 5, 2018

It is fair to say that there are no two neighbors in the entire western hemisphere with a more fraught history than Mexico and the United States. Students of Latin American history are no doubt familiar with Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz’s famous quip regarding the troubled relationship between the two countries: “Poor Mexico, so far […]