Marco Rubio Defends White House Strategy in Venezuela Five Months After Military Operation

The Daily Journal — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave lawmakers on Tuesday an update on Washington’s Venezuela policy during a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The top U.S. diplomat defended the results achieved five months after a military operation that led to the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his […]

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Trump, Cynicism, and the Double Standard

Audio: https://clyp.it/yfbjizdt María Alejandra Díaz Marín.- The most dangerous lie is not the one people force others to believe. The most dangerous lie is the one that makes truth stop mattering. Hannah Arendt warned about that danger when she studied how modern societies accepted extreme forms of domination. Leaders did not need to convince everyone […]

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Opportunity, New Political Moment, or Transition?

Américo Briceño Dos Santos, political scientist and university professor In a social context that continues to resign vast sectors of Venezuelan society to a relative deprivation of their material conditions, and with political violence shaping the social order—becoming somatized in bodies and undermining the collective mood—the civic spirit shifts its horizon of expectations from the […]

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