… but he’ll almost certainly stay in power: This was a blowout; however, Maduro remains in control of the domestic media, the Supreme Court and the military which means he can lie and bully people into compliance. And that’s what … Continue reading →
Perhaps. When one studies the history of tyrants and how they are overthrown, a turning point often comes when either the police, the army, and/or the tyrants’ bodyguards desert them and side with the people aligned against them. Is that … Continue reading →
Of course he does. As Erdogan said: “Democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.” And the people of Venezuela are the losers: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro was declared the … Continue reading →
No, I’m not talking about those ubiquitous Amazon delivery trucks dominating the city roads. I’m talking about this discovery: Researchers have detected a cluster of lost 2,500-year-old cities at the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon rainforest. This amazing … Continue reading →
It was a secret. But the secret has been revealed: Those 45 cities where the receiving international airports are finally came to official light via the House Homeland Security Committee … The administration’s tightly guarded city airport locations confirm a … Continue reading →
Actually, Haiti has been falling apart for a long long time. But in the last week things have reportedly gotten far worse. The gangs are in charge: On Sunday, the US announced that troops had evacuated Americans from the US … Continue reading →
What do we make of this?: Efforts by open-border Democrats to blame the growing big-city migrant crisis on Texas and its program of busing illegal immigrants north are being upstaged by a new investigation showing that President Joe Biden has … Continue reading →
Here’s an interesting trio (emphasis mine): The “lion of the Andes,” Argentine President Javier Milei, is traveling to Washington next weekend to speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference convention and is the second populist Latin leader whom organizers … Continue reading →
Who predicted a year ago that this would be happening in Argentina? I certainly didn’t. Milei gets to work: Argentine lawmakers took a first step Friday toward approving President Javier Milei’s sweeping economic, social and political reform package, which has … Continue reading →
The results of Argentina’s recent election are interesting, to say the least: [Argentina] has just elected a radical free-market economics professor named Javier Milei as its new president … … Milei’s landslide win over an entrenched left-wing political machine Juan … Continue reading →
Until now, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador hasn’t appeared on my radar screen. Seeing that photo at the link, my first thought was how very young he looks. It sounds as though, on the whole, his presidency has been … Continue reading →
Today’s the day that marks the end of Title 42, and there are plenty of articles about what’s going on at the border as a result. So I’m going to link to some of them: this at Powerline, this at … Continue reading →