venezuela

This is What a Rigged Election Looks Like – HotAir

Last summer the regime of socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro announced that leading opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado was ineligible to run for office. The country hadn’t held an election in five years at that point but Machado was expected to be the leading candidate if the current government agreed to hold an election. The opposition […]

Save Some Bombs for Mexico – HotAir

Way back in 2002, Jonah Goldberg published a (mostly) satirical piece in National Review with the humorous title, “Bomb Canada.” It was an irreverent analysis of the problems with Canada’s fundamentally unamerican nature, describing why we should not literally bomb them, but instead give them a bit of “slapping around” to inspire them to grow […]

Venezuela Halts Deportation Flights From US – HotAir

Of the nearly nine million illegal migrants that Joe Biden has allowed into the United States since taking office, a significant percentage of them came here from Venezuela. There were 50.000 of them just in the month of September, setting a record that still stands today. The vast majority of them were simply allowed to […]

How Venezuela’s Maduro Keeps Fooling Joe Biden – HotAir

You can add another name to the list of foreign leaders who are currently running rings around the Biden administration. This time it’s an old fan favorite of this site, Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. As you may recall, Maduro seized power after Hugo Chavez died more than ten years ago. He immediately began a socialist […]

The Case for Welcoming Venezuelan Migrants – HotAir

NBC News has an interesting story today about the impact that Venezuelan expats are having in other countries in the region. The story opens in Argentina where conservative economist Javier Milei recently won his campaign for president. Among the many people who supported his campaign were some Venezuelans who couldn’t even vote. It’s an increasingly […]