GroenLinks, which literally translates as green left, is a party that comes from the union of four parties back in the eighties. The fusion, a… Read More »(old) Red wine in (new) green bottles: Kritisch GroenLinks tries to strike again

It all starts with a simple question, a serious and not rethorical at all, question: If you really care about trees and forests and the… Read More »Voting in The Netherlands, march 2021

23 january 1958 The right wing dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, supported by several USA administrations, flees Venezuela and is replaced by a democratic government. For… Read More »A Venezuelan timeline

Most of us tends to understand political parties in terms of their ideological position. Even with the overlaps and switchs that had happened and undoubtedly… Read More »a new coalition

Today the day all of us that have years doing our little things for the cause of diversity are on a roll. The BLM has… Read More »notes on the revolution

Pandemic. A word for science fiction and history. The black plague, the movie contagion. Corpses thrown into pits, soldiers in hazmat blocking your street. Yet… Read More »ideology change in time of COVID 19

After all it took a bloody virus to remove the last claim to superiority that we southerners had over our northern brethren, at least in… Read More »The corona and the lonely king

Recently I have been elected to help writing the election program of GroenLinks, the dutch green party, for the city of Utrecht. So here some… Read More »Here we go again… to write an election program!

In a previous analysis of the complex Venezuelan situation, I started with the proposition that a forthcoming foreign intervention in Venezuela was unavoidable. So I… Read More »Venezuela and a south American spring… or the coming winter