Pondering whether to cut that anchor loose
Juan Cristobal says: – Today, Venezuela’s Prosecutor General indicted former presidential candidate Manuel Rosales on corruption charges, and asked for him to be tried in prison. This is...
Collapse of Constitutional Government Chronicles, Part 17,348
The 1999 Venezuelan Constitution, Article 13, says: Venezuelan geographic space is a Peace Zone. Foreign military bases, or installations that in some way have military purposes, shall not...
The constitution as subversive pamphlet
Quico says: As Chávez orders the military to take over all the nation’s ports, I have to ask myself, where is the wiggle room in this? Artículo 164....
Chávez: "As soon as I take power, I'm a'gonna shake things up around here!"
Quico says: Sunday’s Aló, Presidente brought one of those classic Chávez moments that leave me somewhere between utterly dumbfounded and grimly awe-struck at the sheer, galactic scale of...
Talk is cheap
Probably the most debilitating aspect of Venezuela’s political crisis is the conviction that there is no serious alternative to chavismo. As the government careens from one insane policy...
¿Dónde está el traductor?
Quico says: ONIDEX, Venezuela’s INS equivalent, has apparently decided there’s no need to wait for visitors to actually, y’know, land in the country before starting to appall them:...
The End of Whac-a-Mole as We Know It?
Quico says: You know the old fair game, right? You get a dorky little foam-padded club, and your job is to keep the moles down. When one pops...
The Looming Scrap for Petrodosh
Quico says: Here is a story that has been simmering for days and should probably be taken as a leading indicator, a canary in the proverbial coal mine....
Taxing our way out of traffic
Juan Cristobal says: – A few months ago I was talking to some people at one of Caracas’ municipalities about the problem of traffic in the city, one...
Master of the debate
Juan Cristobal says: – Chavez’s latest antics include setting up government luxury restaurants and expropriating areperas and doing away with the Bodies Exhibit. Bizarre policies, to be sure,...
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