Eavesdropping Druglord Spook Put In Charge of the Phone Company...
Quico says: So much bizarre shit happens in Venezuela on any given day that absolute belief-beggaring insanity has the easiest time just sort of slipping between the cracks....
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Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
The Venezuelan People Have Fallen in Love Twice: 1945 and 1998
http://www.youtube.com/v/RiSTI_fxoH4&hl=en&fs=1& Post 76 of 100. My YouTube tastes are a bit more high brow than Juan’s…
The View from Your Window
Sao Paolo, Brazil – 2:10 pm Post 73 of 100. Expect many of these tomorrow…I’m off to bed and nowhere near 100 yet.
How Native Has Zelaya Gone?
Quico says: So native the guy is prattling on about assassination plots now! Weak, weak, WEAK! Post 72 of 100. I’ll say it one more time: WEAK!
The Dog that Didn't FARC
Quico says: Simón Romero’s take in today’s New York Times on the gasket Chávez blew when he heard about the new US-Colombia military agreement gets a “could do...
Chigüwin!
Chigüi says: “PDVSA Anaco workers protest for their rights, but in favor of Chávez, but against the government, but with the revolution!” Krauze’s book, incidentally, has a brilliant...
How you can be 100% sure chavismo is a dead end...
Quico says: This story, culled from Newsweek, shows more than just about anything else why chavismo is destined to be remembered as a historical dead end. It calculates...
However silly a Chávez parody may be, real chavismo will match it
Quico says: From El Universal’s analysis of a National Assembly document entitled “Debate about the social relations of production, in Reference to the wholesale reform of the Framework...
Jaime Bayly: October, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/v/N6gvFcKougM&hl=en&fs=1&Quico says: South America’s premiere acid tongued, fire-throwing pundit let Zelaya have it back in October last year, when he signed onto the ALBA pact. Though entertaining –...
How Honduras-crazy has the Venezuelan Media gone?
Quico says: So Honduras-crazy that they have their own top-level menu on El Nacional’s website now…and it’s actually ahead the National news tab! Post 64 of 100. Silly.
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