“One should never speak ill of the dead,” so the old cliché goes about the recently deceased. Those with less inclination toward sentimentality, however, hold that this rule applies only to those who have lived a life exclusively in private and whose actions have had an effect only among their close-knit circle of family, friends, coworkers and neighbors. For those who have lived a public life and who have wielded power over others in a political capacity, their decision to live such a life exempts them from this freedom-from-criticism even, or perhaps especially, in death. For it is in the aftermath of a public figure’s passing that they will receive the greatest adulation, and the temptation to minimize their misdeeds will be most pronounced.
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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: Reflections on the Life of a Cuban-American Exile Hardliner
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Media Coverage of Venezuela’s Presidential Election Normalizes US Interference
My friend Roger Harris of the Task Force on the Americas and I have for the last few years had an editing “intercambio” in which we edit each other’s essays before sending them off to the various lefty websites we write for. Roger kindly offered me a byline on this last piece because he considered my contributions to be substantial enough to merit it. So far, the piece has been published at LA Progressive and INTERNATIONALIST 360°. It will appear at Orinoco Tribune and hopefully a few more publications throughout the coming week.
Thank you for your continued interest in my work.
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Here’s How the Canary Lost Its Way
In my latest piece for LA Progressive, I discuss what went wrong at The Canary.
For about four years I was a regular contributor to the UK-based online publication The Canary. The experience was instrumental in launching my writing career and helping me build a small following on social media. The Canary hired me as a contributor to its global section and I subsequently submitted articles about current affairs in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. As one of its few US-based writers, I also began to write extensively about the Trump administration and the failure of the Democratic Party to provide an alternative to crushing neoliberalism at home and endless imperialism abroad.
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