Ukraine has been burning for two Years, the response is muted. Gaza bleeds, the continent ignites. This is not hypocrisy, but something more complex, and perhaps more revealing, than we would like to admit.

Between cafes, fantasies, and ghosts, Argentina spends a century trying to escape that which always catches up with it.

How to fool the world for two centuries, and yourself for three.

Maduro has hijacked the Venezuelans' right to choose, shamed South America for more than a decade, and, if he could finally listen, perhaps he would perceive the growing murmur coming from neighboring democracies.