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Hugo Chavez.

Hugo Chavez and the Hall of Fame: An excerpt from Zev Chafets’s 2009 book, Cooperstown Confidential

By the time the Hall of Fame came to grips with the issue of how to present Latino baseball, there were already seven Hispanic players in Cooperstown (eight if you include Ted Williams)–Martin Dihigo, Roberto Clemente, Orlando Cepeda, Rod Carew, Luis Aparicio, Juan Marichal and Tony Perez—with more on the way. Catcher Ivan Rodriguez, shortstop, Read More

International Popularity: North Korea Up, Iran Down

A nationwide Quinnipiac poll gauged the popularity of various countries with American voters and found that North Korea became slightly more popular, Iran became less popular and Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela stayed the same.

Here are the current approval ratings of the most popular and least popular countries, along with their scores from a Read More

South of the Border, Democracy Works

It was a good week for democracy in Latin America, and not such a good week for democracy in Washington and New York.

Beyond those immediate observations, we know far less at the moment than we need to know about the events leading up to the coup and countercoup in Venezuela. Who was killed in Read More