Game Over
Quico says: Over on BoingBoing, loyal reader and one-time avid gamer Guido Nuñez Mujica has this lovely, meaty rant on the government’s just approved ban on video games...
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BCVSA and The Exchange Rate that Must Not Be Named
Quico says: Two and a half years ago, when Chávez announced PDVSA would start manufacturing shoes and selling beans and I wrote this snarky little post about the...
Reproduced Verbatim
The North Korean State (what other kind is there?) News Agency says: National Seminar on Juche Idea Held in Venezuela Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) — A national seminar...
Headline of the Year
Quico says: I dare you to click on this and not laugh. Go on, click. You laughed, didn’t you? Oh sure, a second later you caught yourself. You...
Dear Editor
Quico says: I was about to send this as an email to an editor who asked me to write something about Chávez’s hypertrophied presidential office budget. But as...
Chávez thinks you suck; you agree
Quico says: As Chávez takes to blaming more and more of the nation’s problems on you, the latest Datanalisis poll confirms it: 23.9% of respondents identify “la gente”...
Killing capital
Quico says: Hernando de Soto’s conception of “dead capital” is one of the genuinely intriguing ideas spawned by the development literature in recent years. For de Soto, the...
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.
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