The U.S. presidential campaign season is rapidly taking on the political coloration of what can be expected from the low-grade ideological polemics that form the bulk of the political outcomes in Venezuela. Simply put, the obvious lack of worth and the unrelieved meretricious nature of the script being used should come as no surprise. Scandals may come to light, candidates may decide to withdraw, and public opinion polls may dramatically shift at any time....
Venezuela is known on the international scene for unleashing a policy aim at developing a different model of judging Washington’s worldwide role. We Venezuelans living recently in the U.S tend to see U.S – Venezuelan bilateral ties as always being in a state of near rupture. But, just as The White House can’t denyVenezuela’s importance in Latin America, likewise, Venezuela can’t deny the awesome power of its Northern foe.While doubts still linger over the...
La controversia está servida: cuatro países latinoamericanos –Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba y Ecuador- desoyeron el pedido de Estados Unidos de que pongan distancias con Irán. Los presidentes Hugo Chávez de Venezuela, Raúl Castro de Cuba, Rafael Correa de Ecuador y Daniel Ortega de Nicaragua dieron la bienvenida al presidente iraní Mahmoud Ahmadineyad, mientras aumentan las maniobras militares en el Golfo Pérsico y se aproxima un embargo para disuadir a Irán de continuar con su programa...
The controversy unfolds as four Latin American countries – Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador – ignored pressure from the United States to distance their politics from those of Iran. Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Raúl Castro of Cuba, Rafael Correa of Ecuador and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua welcomed the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a moment when tensions were on the rise concerning increased Iranian military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf and an embargo...
On January 8, 2012, the U.S. State Department declared Venezuelan consul general Livia Acosta Noguera persona non grata and ordered her to leave the U.S for her alleged involvement in an Iranian computer scam. The announcement took place the same day that President Ahmadinejad began his four-country tour of Latin America, which included a stop in Venezuela. There is little question that at least part of the motivation for the State Department’s action was...
