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Caracas on the Potomac - or is it Washington on the Guaire?

(…a cesspool or a sewer?) Quico says: This editorial in The New Republic brings me around to a theme you’ve seen here before: the eerie parallels between George...

Francisco Toro March 30, 2007

Life

Our alligator

Quico says: I apologize for the hiatus on CC. Truth is, I can find nothing to post about. I thought about writing a suitably alarmed post about Seniat’s...

Francisco Toro March 29, 2007

Life

A preemptive purge?

Quico says: A consensus of sorts seems to be emerging to explain the sudden move against the Supreme Tribunal’s Constitutional Chamber. It’s based on three premises: The pretense...

Francisco Toro March 26, 2007

Life

Laureano does Babel

Quico says: I’ve been finding it more and more difficult to write about Venezuela without sounding either alarmist or flippant, (or even worse, an odd combination of the...

Francisco Toro March 24, 2007

Life

Cabrerita en su salsa

Quico says: For the last several years, Supreme Tribunal Magistrate Jesús Eduardo Cabrera has been Venezuela’s leading purveyor of tortured and bizarre (but always government friendly) legal interpretations....

Francisco Toro March 23, 2007

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Defining delivery down...

Quico says: The sign reads: The President and the Mayor CAME THROUGH Construction of the new building for the Pérez de León Hospital and Mother and Child Unit....

Francisco Toro March 21, 2007

Life

The ins and outs of zero zapping

Quico says: A few of you have written in with questions about monetary reform. Here’s my attempt to clear things up: First off, the practice of striking zeros...

Francisco Toro March 21, 2007

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Two things

Quico says: Caracas Chronicles on Noticiero Digital is here. Chigüire on your dinner plate is here.

Francisco Toro March 21, 2007

Life

Who stands up for Maria Campos?

Katy says: Maria Campos came to Venezuela from her native Colombia 33 years ago, looking for a better life. She had three Venezuelan children. One of them, Nay...

Francisco Toro March 20, 2007

Life

The creeping criminalization of protest

Quico says: It’s a worrying and under-reported trend: protesting in public is increasingly liable to land you in jail in Venezuela. PROVEA, a homegrown human rights NGO, documented...

Francisco Toro March 19, 2007

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