El Caracazo: The unseen military cover-up
Katy says: Yesterday was the anniversary of El Caracazo, a day that no Venezuelan can ever forget. On February 27th, 1989, thousands of poor people poured into the...
The red submarines
Katy says: Chilean newspaper El Mercurio reprinted a story today originally broken by Argentine daily Clarín: Chávez is in the market to buy nine new submarines for the...
A response from Alek Boyd re: Primero Justicia
Katy says: Fellow blogger Alek Boyd had a different take on Primero Justicia’s split than the one I expressed. I don’t have an agenda on this issue, and...
On political common sense, Part 2: Their side
Quico says: Two weeks ago, I wrote this long piece on the deeper reasons why chavismo is so profoundly unacceptable to those of us in the opposition. I...
Breaking up is hard to do
Katy says: A few days ago Primero Justicia, Venezuela’s third-largest political party, suffered a public split. A group led by Chacao mayor Leopoldo López (pictured right) and former...
By the end of this post you will know more about economics than the Venezuelan government...
Quico says: There’s something vaguely embarrassing about the whole debate about food shortages taking place in Venezuela these days. Because, really, there’s nothing to debate: the way price...
Six slides is all it takes
There’s something vaguely embarrassing about the whole debate about food shortages taking place in Venezuela these days. Because, really, there’s nothing to debate: the way price controls lead...
Lose money or lose your business!
Quico says: Want to know how to blame the retail sector for its own expropriation? Ask yourself this: So, really, the choice is up to you. You can...
Al Qaeda scrambles chavismo's ideological circuits
Quico says: This Al Qaeda threat thing has thrown the Chávez government completely for a loop. This one was definitely not in their play-book, they seem to have...
Al Qaeda: Laying it bare...
Quico says: Imagine you are an enemy of the United States. I don’t mean a rhetorical, fancy-speech giving, UN-podium hoggin’, radical-chic faux-enemy, I mean a real enemy. A...
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