Leaders for life are as creative as novelists. They engage in world-building

by Rashmee

Posted on January 17, 2020


On Wednesday (Jan. 15) Russia’s president Vladimir Putin offered an apparently new tactic of democratic …

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At one stroke Trump made a Libya of Venezuela

by Rashmee

Posted on February 4, 2019


The first thing to say about Donald Trump’s recognition of Venezuela’s opposition leader as president …

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Do you really believe Donald Trump cares about justice for Hillary?

by Rashmee

Posted on May 10, 2017


In his three months as president, 18 months on the campaign trail and decades in …

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Hugo Chavez, a ladies man, but not only in the way you think

by Rashmee

Posted on April 14, 2013


If you don’t vote Maduro, you don’t love your mother. Fascinating story in the Christian …

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Don’t bank on it: Chavez’s Banco del Sur; a BRICS bank

by Rashmee

Posted on April 9, 2013


The words ‘Bank of the South’ come to mind as one reads Foreign Policy on…

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General Kelly’s South American nightmare

by Rashmee

Posted on March 20, 2013


To many, the new commander of U.S. forces for Latin and South America sounds like …

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Bye bye handshake diplomacy, hello namaste

by Rashmee

Posted on February 14, 2013


In the world of diplomacy, a handshake and a high-five can mean too much and …

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Chavez successor Venezuela’s Uriah Heep?

by Rashmee

Posted on December 13, 2012


So the Venezuelan vice-president Nicolas Maduro is pleading with President Chavez to return to Caracas …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK