Bazooka Hugo
Quico says: The Case of the Swedish Bazookas makes it clear that something very odd is happening in the bonkers-at-the-best-of-times world of chavista foreign policy. The Venezuelan government...
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The View from Your Window
Madrid, Spain – a few months ago. Feel like sharing the view from your window? Send a snapshot along to [email protected]
The View from Your Window
Oslo, Norway – 8:30 p.m. Feel like sharing the view from your window? Send a snapshot along to [email protected]
Coming Out FARC
Quico says: Last week’s revelation that high tech Swedish anti-tank missiles have been seeping across the border from the Venezuelan military into FARC’s hands reminded me of nothing...
Blog The Plank
Quico says: A version of my rant from this morning is now over on The New Republic’s mass blog, The Plank. Check it out.
The View from Your Window
Austin, Texas – 7:50 pm Feel like sharing the view from your window? Send a snapshot along to caracaschronicles at fastmail dot fm Please ensure the window frame...
The Tenth Anniversary of a Slap in the Face
Quico says: It was hard, this weekend, seeing those images of Hugo Chávez celebrating the tenth anniversary of the 1999 Constituent Assembly. Presidential saches and speeches; pomp and...
Bolívar = Stalin, and other pearls of wisdom from the sick minds still tending the rump Noticiero Digital
Quico says: Anybody remember Noticiero Digital? In its time, it was genuinely pathbreaking: the first site that made Venezuelans stop and realize they could get their news faster...
The Original and The Best
Quico says: Credit where credit is due: in the overcrowded field of snivelling pro-Chávez sycophants and propagandists, nobody does it better than Mark Weisbrot. His LA Times OpEd...
A girl in a bikini
Quico says: This is a girl in a bikini. I could come up with some kind of justification for what she’s doing on my blog, but that would...
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