Getting kidnapped: more trouble than it's worth
Quico says: Sometimes, amid all the high-fallutin’ talk about the rise of authoritarianism and the creeping onslaught on basic liberties, we lose sight of chavismo’s basic inability to...
"I'll take the gunbao chicken, some springrolls, and 32,000 b/d, please..."
Simón Boccanegra says: Some of the stuff that’s been going down recently borders on Caribbean surrealism. The story about the Chinese drilling rigs is pure farce. Readers may...
Sea of Felicity
BBC says: Cuban athletes have made a hurried departure from the Pan-American games in Brazil, apparently amid fears of possible mass defections. The delegation was rushed at short...
Rhetorical about-face
Katy says: As we eagerly await the unveiling of the Constitutional Reform that we will hopefully get a chance to vote on, it’s strange to see the government,...
RCTV The Sequel: Scarier than the original
Quico says: So, as most people know, having gotten kicked off the public air waves, oppo broadcaster RCTV made a Freddie Kruegeresque return to haunt the government’s dreams...
Brother, can you spare $49,665,810,000?
Quico says: According to people idle enough to actually keep track of these things, in the first half of the year the Chávez government announced plans to spend...
Chavez vs. The Grassroots
Quico says: Teodoro Petkoff has this little riff about how Venezuela’s democratic roots just run too deep for an authoritarian model to really take hold. The relatively liberal...
Beyond satire
Quico says: I wanted to make fun of this little rant, but on second thought, the thing satirizes itself: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has vowed to expel foreigners...
Role confusion
Quico says: So within the last 48 hours, we’ve found out that Four years on, PDVSA still can’t figure out a way to hire enough drills to keep...
The Petroleum Tax Credit
Quico says: Over the last two posts (here and here), I’ve explained why I think the Venezuelan state should distribute all of its oil income (yes, all of...
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