“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” (Thucydides)1)
On September 3, 2026, lawyers for Nicolás Maduro filed a motion asking a federal judge in Manhattan to dismiss the narco-terrorism indictment against him,
New York court sets June 1 trial date for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores appeared in a Manhattan federal court Wednesday where Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein set a June 1, 2027 trial date at the request of lawyers for both the prosecution and the defense.
I was there when Venezuelans buried ex-President Carlos Andrés Pérez
This I believe: “Always go to the funeral.” This philosophy took me to Caracas, Venezuela where I witnessed first hand thousands of ordinary Venezuelans, jubilantly taking to the streets, welcoming home the remains of their ex-president, Carlos Andrés
Takings in Venezuela
Ben’s link to Ilya Somin’s post on Volokh reminded me that last Sunday’s New York Times carried an article describing the proposed seizure of two posh private golf clubs in Caracas for conversion into housing for the poor. The article