The petrostate revisited
Quico says: Turns out David Frum liked my petrostate essay. Looking back, it’s probably the single post I’m most proud of.
Chavez vs. The Constitution
Quico says: These days it’s easy to forget, but in 1998 chavismo was all about the constitution. Hugo Chavez built his pitch to the nation around calls to...
Learning to cherish independent institutions
Quico says: Last week, the pro-Chávez Comando Alexis Vives marched onto the Central University campus and trashed the School of Journalism, spray-painting anti-RCTV and pro-government slogans all over...
It's a vast, vast, vast right-wing conspiracy. No, seriously, we mean vast!
Quico says: According to Chávez, the only reason he’s getting all this flack about closing RCTV is a giant conspiracy against him. “International rightist, extreme-rightist and fascist movements...
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