Monthly Archives: February 2008

Katy says: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is not my favorite. Still, I make it a point to read her since a lot of people do. Sometimes, when she’s good, she taps into what many people are thinking but … Continue reading →

Katy says: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is not my favorite. Still, I make it a point to read her since a lot of people do. Sometimes, when she’s good, she taps into what many people are thinking but … Continue reading →

Katy says: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is not my favorite. Still, I make it a point to read her since a lot of people do. Sometimes, when she’s good, she taps into what many people are thinking but … Continue reading →

Katy says: Yesterday, celebrity terrorist and chavista fanatic Lina Ron forced her way into the offices of the Archbishop of Caracas. There, she demanded that the government cease harrassing chavista subversive groups in the “23 de Enero” projects. She also … Continue reading →

Katy says: Yesterday, celebrity terrorist and chavista fanatic Lina Ron forced her way into the offices of the Archbishop of Caracas. There, she demanded that the government cease harrassing chavista subversive groups in the “23 de Enero” projects. She also … Continue reading →

Katy says: Leopoldo López is the brilliant, popular, telegenic Mayor of Chacao and one of the opposition’s most promising politicians. We haven’t talked about him in quite some time, but we should, because he is apparently the overwhelming favorite in … Continue reading →

Katy says: Leopoldo López is the brilliant, popular, telegenic Mayor of Chacao and one of the opposition’s most promising politicians. We haven’t talked about him in quite some time, but we should, because he is apparently the overwhelming favorite in … Continue reading →

Katy says: “That one over there, that’s my mother’s house. The house next to it also belongs to my mother, but she’s loaned it to make a Barrio Adentro module. That’s where the Cuban doctors work and live.” With these … Continue reading →

Katy says: “That one over there, that’s my mother’s house. The house next to it also belongs to my mother, but she’s loaned it to make a Barrio Adentro module. That’s where the Cuban doctors work and live.” With these … Continue reading →

Quico says: …which is now available online here. Indeed, Cháveznomics is far from unprecedented: the gross contours of this story follow the disastrous experiences of many Latin American countries during the 1970s and 1980s. The economists Rudiger Dornbusch and Sebastian … Continue reading →

Quico says: Hats off to Tibisay Lucena. The head of the National Elections Council is more ambitious than she seems. First, she pulled off a feat that seemed virtually impossible: she managed to announce that Chávez had lost a popular … Continue reading →

Quico says: Hats off to Tibisay Lucena. The head of the National Elections Council is more ambitious than she seems. First, she pulled off a feat that seemed virtually impossible: she managed to announce that Chávez had lost a popular … Continue reading →

Quico says: It’s great fun to watch Francisco Rodríguez run an analytical bulldozer through a mountain of chavista bullshit. Choice bit: One would expect [the consensus abroad that chavismo has been good for the poor] to be backed up by … Continue reading →

Quico says: Newsrooms rush to tweak his obituary!

Quico says: I’m a bit late to this story, but I don’t want to let it go without comment. The way Chávez justified his decision to raise milk prices last month really was something else. Here (edited for clarity) is … Continue reading →