Over the radar, under the radar
Katy says: – Lots is going on that we should probably touch upon. Some of it is happening over the radar – literally, as in the case of...
The nightmare that is INTI
Katy says: – I’m in Maracaibo, walking up 72nd street. Everything is flooded. I’m with my aunt Isabel, only she’s twenty years younger and considerably taller than me,...
Imperdible
Katy says: – Rory Carroll wrote a terrific article on Chávez for yesterday’s edition of The Guardian. Thanks to Kepler for the heads up.
The fallout
Katy says: – A day after the Interpol report on Raul Reyes’ laptops and President Chávez’s predictably Orwellian reaction, it’s worth analyzing the possible implications from this scandal....
They're real ... and they're spectacular
Katy says: – Well, Interpol confirmed what everyone already knew: that the three laptops, three USB drives and two portable hard drives the Colombian government claims belonged to...
Obsessions make the man
Katy says: – The US, the Constitutional Reform, the FARC, Fidel – these are some of Chávez’s well-known obsessions. His latest one is November’s Regional Elections. Lately, not...
SSOT? Maybe. Criminal conspirator? Definitely.
Quico says: What would it take to get Mark Weisbrot, Larry Birns & co. genuinely cheesed off at the Venezuelan government? Would documentary evidence that Chávez had actively...
Chávez and Correa give the game away
Quico says: I’d been planning to wait until Thursday’s Interpol report on the authenticity of the Reyes laptops to join this particularly sordid fray, but really there’s no...
Gather around, kiddies: grandpa's a gonna tell a story!
Quico says: In the latest Letras Libres (in Spanish), Alberto Barrera Tyszka and Ibsen Martínez sit down for a long chat with old man Petkoff. Turns out Teodoro’s...
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