I love this photo of my friend and co-director, Arturo Albarrán that I took at the Berkeley Marina two months after his arrival in the US on the “Parole Program” our government is offering Haitians and Venezuelans. I’m especially grateful to have Arturo living with us today as we commemorate the UN Day of…
I haven’t written about Venezuela for a while, mainly because after the Juan Guaidó fiascos the Maduro dictatorship just went on pillaging the country as he and Chávez had been doing for the previous two decades. The situation appeared hopeless and, frankly, I lost heart. I became more preoccupied with my own country and its…
It took my wife Marcy Rein and me two independent searches to find out what happened to Victor Hugo Tinoco. We came at the search independently because neither of us knew the other had such a deep interest in understanding what happened to this remarkable person, especially after he’d been imprisoned in 2021 along with…
You can read my review of Brian Muraresku’s The Immortality Key here at Quillette. It stirred up quite a response from those readers, always a very critical, free-thinking bunch of people, in my experience. Of Quillette readers, that is. Some of the comments bear particular consideration. For instance, the first comment by Ian_A. He says,…
Ana Manuela explains the history and her involvement in the Brazillian MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra).