Beneath a half-completed section of highway overpass on the dusty outskirts of Dakar, Moussa spreads his arms widely to the concrete slab above his head. "This is what the tycoon classes want for Senegal!" he announces with theatrical triumph. "New roads for their new...
Before we use Thomas Ricks’ The Gamble to revisit the now largely forgotten American escalation in Iraq, a few words on the US occupation there between 2003 and 2006 might be helpful, and Ricks himself provides them. Distilling three years of failure through the lens of a single...
As Venezuela prepares to mark the tenth anniversary of its Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez has little cause for celebration. His stewardship of the state economy has largely resulted in failure: income inequality is on the rise while poverty reduction has not kept pace with the...
Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left by Nikolas Kozloff (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). 256 pp. Rapidly deteriorating relations between the United States and Venezuela opened new avenues for confrontation this past month, as the two countries broke off official diplomatic...
The following excerpt is Part Two of a two part series on Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela. As I argued in these pages a month ago, the truly revolutionary dimension to Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian politics is his aggressive sponsorship of social welfare “missions” to Venezuela’s poorest...
