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Posted by wordpress | Feb 26, 2014 | Multimedia, Video
Event Tomorrow: One Year After Chávez: Venezuela, Chavismo, and Democracy On Thursday, February 27, Venezuela Politics and Human Rights Blog Moderator David Smilde will discuss the current situation in Venezuela in the context...
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Mar 13, 2013 | Multimedia, Podcast
Follow this link for an interview I did with Andrew West of the Austrialian Broadcasting Corporation’s Religion and Ethics Report.
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Mar 6, 2013 | Analysis
I learned about Hugo Chávez’s passing just as I boarded a flight to Caracas and had four solid hours to think about it. It seems incredible that it was fourteen years ago that Chávez assumed the presidency. It seems incredible...
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Jan 13, 2013 | Articles
The Alianza Regional para la Expresión e Información has come out with a timely and useful document called “Acceso a la Información de la Salud de los Jefes de Estado.” (It’s not available in English yet but can be accessed in...
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Jan 10, 2013 | Analysis
In the past 24 hours some more reasonable and relevant opinions have emerged beyond the tug of war over whether the “continuation thesis” is constitutional. As I said early this week, I think it is not but that it a tempest in a...
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