"Broader and deeper"
Quico says: Hats off to José de Córdoba and Jay Solomon: their front-page investigative piece on the real extent of the Chávez-FARC nexus revealed by Raúl Reyes’s laptops...
A debate about nothing
Quico says: There’s a desperate, clawing pathos to it: the painfully fake debate Chávez made the A.N. hold over “Zulia secessionism” ended with parliamentarians approving a strongly worded...
Dept. of Magical Language
Quico says: So speaking to reporters the other day, Planning Minister Haiman “Orwelito” El Troudi accepted that the last few rounds of sovereign bond issues have created an...
New template
Quico says: After a morning wasted fiddling around with the blog’s software, I’ve now upgraded to one of Google’s new style Blogger templates. It looks pretty much like...
Dept. of Luz Pa'la Calle
Quico says: Joy was uncontained in Venezuela today as the government announced that, thanks to the millions of dollars it has invested in the electric industry, there will...
A Euro-Oil Peg?
Quico says: Chavez, Ahmadinejad & co. have made something of a hobby horse of it: Oil should be traded in Euros rather than sullied by association with the...
No means no
Quico says: “No es no.” Three words, six letters, short, sharp, unambiguous, devastating. The slogan is one of the most heartening developments in recent Venezuelan politics: it crystallizes...
Chávez, can you spare $20 million?
Katy says: Recently, I came upon a story about a cost-effective alternative to expensive mass-transit systems. It’s called Aerobus and it has been in use in the city...
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