The apple that fell a couple of time zones over from the tree
Quico says: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait! The kid who runs El Chigüire Bipolar is Alberto Federico Ravell’s son?! HUH?!
Northern populist
Juan Cristobal says: – A scenery-chewing political reformer. A bible-thumping banner of books. A pitbull with lipstick. The political heiress to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. A hack....
My Dinner with Guido
Quico says: So, much as I’d vowed to avoid it, I find myself getting inexorably sucked into the Maletagate Maelstrom. Too much good stuff is coming out of...
Chavismo: Guaranteeing total impunity since 1999
Quico says: It seems like ages ago (and it was), but I remember it vividly. Back in those first few months of ’99, I genuinely was on the...
This Peronist presidency is b(r)ought to you by...
Quico says: The Miami Maletagate Trial is the kind of blogging black hole you could get sucked into and spend virtually all of your time covering. I’m mostly...
Not a "State Sponsor of Terrorism"...just, y'know, a state run by people who sponsor terrorism
Quico says: In today’s WaPo, Juan Forero has the skinny on the Empire’s decision to freeze all assets belonging to three top chavista intelligence operatives: the inimitable Ramón...
Taking shit from Chávez
Quico says: True Venezuelan politics junkies don’t need reminding to check El Chigüire Bipolar on a daily basis. But on the occassion of Chávez’s e/scatological expulsion of US...
Eat our dust, São Tomé and Principe!
Quico says: So, according to the latest World Bank report on the cost of business regulations, guess which is the only one of the ten worst countries to...
Tit-for-tat
Quico says: The government’s newfound love-in with Interpol makes for the kind of compare-and-contrast post that more or less writes itself. I mean, it’s too easy. A government...
i for i-ntimidated
Quico says: One of the few rays of hope I found on my recent trip to Caracas was the rise of Canal i, the most promising of the...
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