Your apartment is their heritage
Quico says: Chavismo has surely entered its churrigueresque period when the government decrees a gas station as a protected historical site, an irreducible part of the nation’s cultural...
Evita G. officially loses it...
Quico says: Read this and tell me Eva Golinger hasn’t lost her marbles completely. I can’t even piece together what the specific offense she’s accusing MM of was...
No good, two-timin' SOB...
Quico says: OK, I admit it: I haven’t been posting very much recently cuz I’ve been…gasp…two-timin’ this blog! The shame! The other blog project is, erm…a lot different.
The final frontier
Juan Cristóbal says: – Loyal reader Kepler has a post on his blog about Amazonas state. It’s well worth a read, if anything for the links and the...
Iranian uranium turns Iranian centrifuges into silly putty
Quico says: For the longest time, the conventional wisdom was that it would be senseless for Iran to seek uranium supplies outside its own territory, because they could...
Speaking truth to power, Cuba-style
Juan Cristóbal says: – Blogger extraordinaire Yoani Sanchez fights for her rights. In Spanish only…
Former communist guerrilla blasts state intervention in the economy
Juan Cristóbal says: (With my apologies to Teodoro-groupie Quico, but that headline wrote itself.) In today’s Tal Cual, Teodoro Petkoff sensibly butchers the Chávez administration for involving itself...
The curious case of the missing panic
Juan Cristóbal says: As the government’s authoritarian noose tightens, and next year’s Legislative elections draw ever nearer with zero progress on a unity platform, it’s fair to ask:...
Catch My (Authoritarian) Drift?
Quico says: In the Guardian today, Rory Carroll manages the impossible: getting a major first world paper to buckle down and give detailed attention to Chávez’s authoritarian drift....
The view from your window: Alexandria
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