Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post
One surreal night in 2010, a team of forensic specialists under orders from Venezuela’s mercurial president, Hugo Chávez, lifted a coffin lid on live television.
Inside lay the remains of Simón Bolívar, the famed military leader and political icon who had freed vast stretches of South America from Spanish rule in the early 1800s. Chávez, who idolized the man known as El Libertador — The Liberator — had become fixated on proving a conspiracy theory that Bolívar had not died of tuberculosis, as had been widely accepted by historians, but rather had been poisoned by a confederacy of enemies that included Colombian aristocrats, the king of Spain and the president of the United States, Andrew Jackson.
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Pat Zi / Joy on Paper
It was such an honor to talk to Dr. Moisés Naím.
I have spoken a many global bestselling authors, many celebrities, and even the Poet Laureate. But never one of “world’s leading thinkers’ as he is known. I felt like I should have addressed him as Dr. Naím, but he was so gracious and so I got on a first time name with this great man. After all, as he pointed out, he is a first time novelist….and what a novel! Two Spies in Caracas is a powerful thriller that takes readers into the turmoil of a collapsing Venezuela.
It harkens back to the best of Helen McInnes who knew how to write about spies, romance, and political intrigues.
In one of history’s most dangerous revolutions when Hugo Chavez led a coup against the Venezuela government, two rival spies are pitted against each other. Cristina Garza works for the CIA. She has two goals: help stabilize the oil reserves and eliminate Cuba’s influence. At the same time Iván Rincón of Cuba’s Intelligence Directorate is determined to neutralizing any American agents. But soon in the dangerous streets of Caracas Iván and Cristina are caught in a tangled web of lies and deceits — and shifting alliances as they play a game of espionage and murder.
Moisés Naím is not only a great thinker…but a great novelist.
You will love this book!
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State of the World 2021 Conference : Struggle for Democracy
The world is at a crossroads as the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the global economy have combined with increasing polarization and highly charged elections. At the same time, the unrelenting desire of people around the globe to live in freedom offers hope for democracy and human rights.
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"The book tries to show how paradoxical meritocracy is. It is transformed by being used through politics and its dark side towards inequality.
The remedy is to remind the successful that the position of the family or nation where they were born allowed them to be successful. Humility is the antidote to the arrogance of meritocracy".
Michael Sandel's reflection and his book The Tyranny of Merit in conversation with Moisés Naím.
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Peter Schechter and Muni Jensen / Altmar Podcast
Guest: Moisés Naím, internationally-syndicated columnist, best-selling author, and TV host
Was the U.S. Capitol assault an attempted coup? Yes – but what comes next matters more.
The storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 was a national disgrace that upended America’s predictably peaceful transitions of power. It also unleashed widespread debate over classification as a coup – or if the attack was a riot, uprising, and insurrection – as U.S. citizens received a crash course on Latin America’s history of “self-coups” and worldwide assaults against democracy.
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