2007: The year in review
Katy, Quico and Lucia say: What a year it’s been. Just twelve months ago, Hugo Chávez strode Venezuela’s political scene like a colossus and the opposition was worn...
Great Moments in Profound Reflection
Quico says: As the Suitcase Full’o’Cash scandal metastasizes, and Carlos Kauffman (another of Juan Carlos Zapata’s publicly identified Bolibourgeois Idols) starts memorizing the water stain patterns on his...
What would Mafalda say?
Katy says: Year’s worth of Maybeline makeup… $1,000Botox injections … $600Designer dress … $1,000Spiked Manolo Blahniks to wear for a summit … $450Collagen injections for your lips …...
¿Y dónde están las actas?
Quico says: Yesterday I interviewed Primero Justicia’s representative to CNE, Juan Carlos Caldera, about the “mystery of the tallysheets” – where the copies of the actas are, and...
Winning in Petare, shooting for Parapara
Katy says: “All politics is local” – Former US Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. Many things changed in the last election: chavistas stayed home or otherwise voted...
All I want for Christmas is a Fujitsu FI-5900C
Quico says: Granted, it costs $20,000, but what a nice toy. Scanning 120 pages per minute, and boasting “Triple Ultrasonic Double Feed Detection with Intelligent MultiFeed Function” (not...
Rumors of CNE's competence have been greatly exaggerated
Quico says: I hate to write this, but for transparency’s sake, I’m forced to. It took the eagle eyed maths monsters who read this blog all of twenty...
CNE 2nd Bulletin: Now it's really, really official
Quico says: With 94% of tallies reporting: Block A (Proposed by Chávez)No = 50.65% (4,521,494 votes)Sí = 49.34% (4,404,626 votes) Block B (Proposed by the National Assembly)No=51.01% (4,539,707...
Belarusian Tinned Stew, anyone?
Quico says: Hugo Chávez never met a dictator he didn’t love, so he’ll have been delighted to welcome Europe’s last to Caracas last night. Maybe Chávez wants some...
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