The wolf decries the plight of the sheep
Juan Cristóbal says: -As I write this, the deposed President of Honduras is giving a speech to the UN. As I write this, all TV and radio stations...
Grand Theft Opinion
Quico says: So I wrote up a thing on the Honduran mess over at The New Republic’s mass blog, The Plank. A taste: If anything, the hemisphere’s unanimous,...
Two faces of Hugo Chávez
Juan Cristóbal says: – Hugo Chávez on last week’s events in Iran: “The Bolivarian government of Venezuela expresses its firm rejection of the ferocious and unfounded campaign to...
The Trouble with Mass Expropriations...
Quico says: …is that, these days, the world just isn’t set up for that way of doing things. Take the Eastern Shore of Lake Maracaibo oil service company...
Bugbear to All
Quico says: It’s remarkable to realize how much of the political life of Venezuela these days is about Globovision: an influence entirely out of proportion to the station’s...
¿Qué pasaría en Venezuela si no existiera El Chigüire Bipolar?
Quico says: “Indispensable” is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot. But this story demonstrates why El Chigüire Bipolar has become genuinely indispensable in Venezuela....
The Exporter
“Así estarán las vainas que when we manage to get the National Guard to show up at our factory, we celebrate,” The Exporter says, savoring how counter-intuitive his...
Leopoldo endorses opposition primaries
Juan Cristóbal says: – Leopoldo López, the former mayor of Chacao and an early front-runner for the 2012 opposition Presidential nomination, made some important news this morning. In...
Gone To The Dogs
Quico says: The sun was setting by the time he got to the farm gate, so it wasn’t immediately evident to Kenneth that the guys loitering there were...
You've got to know when to hold'em and when to fold'em
Juan Cristóbal says: In the last few months, the government has ratcheted up the pressure against the only opposition TV station left in Venezuela, the small all-news outlet...
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