American and Latin American Politics, Society, and Culture
“He who opposes a dictatorship must accept civil war as a means. He would recoil from civil war must give up opposition and accept the dictatorship.”
Arthur Koestler,
Darkness At Noon: A Novel
pages 213-214
UPDATE
Post-vote my sources tell me opposition is well armed &will target N. Guard…#Venezuela could take a bloody turn. https://t.co/4yiF8nCuwF
— Prof. Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) July 31, 2017
My closing was delayed and I’m still in transit, but here’s Jonas,
From the YouTube description,
In memory of the great Richard Wagner and mindful of their own Wagner tradition, the Staatskapelle Dresden staged this glittering gala concert in the Semperoper on the eve of Richard Wagner’s bicentenary. They were directed by their principal conductor Christian Thielemann, indisputably one of the great Wagner conductors of our time, and he was joined by the hottest young heroic tenor of recent years, Jonas Kaufmann. The programme features the overtures to the Wagner operas written and premiered in Dresden – 1842 Rienzi, 1843 The Flying Dutchman and 1845 Tannhäuser – as well as great tenor scenes from Rienzi, Tannhäuser and Lohengrin. Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann was celebrated with bravos and tumultuous applause – as were the musicians and Thielemann
At the NYT: “As Venezuela Prepares to Vote, Some Fear an End to Democracy”
Democracy is dead in Venezuela, and has been for a while.
Where was the NYT ten years ago when Chávez shut down radio and TV stations?
At WoW! Magazine,
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Ayn Rand’s Children of the Damned, a 1971 Prophecy Fulfilled
On race and gender, Democrats have always embraced the Big Lie
The BBC reports Chile moves towards legalising abortion in limited cases
Senators voted separately on each of the three cases in which women would be allowed to have an abortion:
- The vote in favour of allowing abortion in cases in which the mother’s life is at risk was 20 in favour and 14 opposed
- That of allowing a termination in cases where the foetus is unviable was 18 to 14
The closest result was for the vote on whether to allow abortions in cases of rape. Eighteen senators voted in favour and 16 against
According to the report, “Abortion in limited cases was legal in Chile until 1989, when it was completely banned under the rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.”
