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Chavismo After Chávez
For more than a decade, Chávez’s popularity has remained high because of his strong support from the country’s poor. But his strategies to entice the neediest have reached their limit. Now the...
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End Game Approaches for Towering Venezuelan Visionary and the Future of...
This Council on Hemispheric Affairs report was produced by COHA Director Larry Birns and COHA Senior Research Fellow Frederick B. Mill. For the original report and footnote information follow the link...
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Chavez Cancer Imperils $7 Billion Caribbean Oil Funding
Anatoly Kurmanaev (Bloomberg) reports that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s battle with cancer threatens $7 billion of subsidized oil exports that help prop up Cuba’s economy and contain inflation...
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Hugo Chávez: The Missing President
This Opinion piece by ALBERTO BARRERA TYSZKA and CRISTINA MARCANO appeared in The New York Times. Follow link below for the original report. ON Jan. 10, while Hugo Chávez lay in a hospital bed in...
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Spanish Paper Duped by Fake Hugo Chavez Hospital Photo
The world and Venezuela are anxiously awaiting for Hugo Chávez’s first public appearance since fleeing to Cuba for cancer treatment last year. That’s why the Spanish paper El País decided to run a...
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St. Lucia Tries to Lower Electricity Rates
According to the Jamaica Gleaner, St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Kenny Anthony will try to amend existing legislation governing the operations of the St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC), the...
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Earthquake Rattles Trinidad, Grenada and Jamaica
While we were worrying about snow and ice here in the eastern U.S., a 4.9-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coasts of Trinidad and Venezuela on early Sunday morning. Meanwhile tremors also shook...
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Isn’t it time to respect Venezuela’s democracy?
Samuel Moncada, the Ambassador of Venezuela to the United Kingdom since 2007, argues for a look at the achievements of Hugo Chávez’s presidency of Venezuela in this article for Time/CNN. Reading the...
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Letter to Hugo Chávez from Fidel Castro
Following is the text of the letter from Fidel Castro to President Hugo Chávez on the occasion of the return of Chávez to Venezuela on February 18, after another joust in his battle against cancer....
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President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez Dies
Newspapers are abuzz reporting that Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, has passed away after a long battle against cancer, prompting a wave of mourning in the country he ruled since 1999 with “a...
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Venezuela and Jamaica: The Ties that Bind
Gary Spaulding (The Gleaner) writes that, as the House of Representatives prepared to engage in a lengthy debate on the National Housing Trust (NHT), news arrived that a great friend of Jamaica, who...
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The Chávez Myth and Incredulous Europe
This article by RAFAEL RICO RÍOS appeared in REBELIÓN. The Venezuelan legend of La Llorona tells the story of a young woman who is abandoned by her lover. In her madness she murders her own daughter,...
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Art Exhibition: Erik Feely’s “Ascending and Descending”
The Gallery of Caribbean Art invites you to “Ascending and Descending,” an exhibition by Erik Feely, a Trinidadian/Irish artist exhibiting for the first time in Barbados. Opening night is Sunday,...
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Islands of Hope
This article by DON ROJAS, who served as press secretary in the revolutionary government of Grenada’s Prime Minister Maurice Bishop from 1981 to 1983, appeared on the indypendent.org site. Among the...
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Venezuela Gives Chávez Protégé Narrow Victory
In an unexpectedly close race, Venezuelans narrowly voted to continue Hugo Chávez’s revolution, electing his handpicked political heir, Nicolás Maduro, to serve the remainder of his six-year term as...
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Patois Association working to revive dying language
Parents and grandparents in Trinidad and Tobago used it when they did not want sharp younger ears to listen in on their conversation, as Leisely Maraj reports in this article for Trinidad’s Newsday....
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Nicolás Maduro Wins Venezuelan Presidential Election
Jim Wyss (Miami Herald) writes that “Hugo Chávez proved his power from beyond the grave,” as his handpicked successor won the presidency of Venezuela. He underlines that many see this victory as a...
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CARICOM Seeks Continued Good Relations between Caribbean and Venezuela
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries say they are looking forward to “continued goodwill, friendship and cooperation” that has characterised their relationship with Venezuela following the electoral...
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Film: “Mirror to the Soul—From Barbados to Basing Street”
Mirror to the Soul: Music, Culture and Identity in the Caribbean 1920-72 is a compilation film of Pathé newsreel clips from 1920 to 1972, which captures Britain’s complex relationship with the...
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Reforestation in Haiti: 1.2 Million Trees Planted
Haiti, one of the world’s most deforested countries, launched its first national tree-planting program. The big dig was planned for May 1. This was part of an ambitious government effort to reforest...
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