Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Quico says: As we see OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza increasingly mimetized with Chávez over the Honduran crisis, it’s worth remembering that the organization the guy leads...
Quico says: It’s hard to overstate how bizarre the judicial persecution against Globovision financier and president Guillermo Zuloaga’s had already gotten even before the judge put in charge...
Quico says: Lets say that, as the ALBA block claims to believe, the interruption of constitutional rule in Honduras is simply unacceptable and Zelaya has to be restored...
Quico says: Child rapist Daniel Ortega (a.k.a. the president of Nicaragua) has apparently decided that Central America isn’t quite tense and unstable enough as it is. Fresh from...
Montreal, Canada – 10: 44 a.m.Thanks to everyone who’s taken the time to send in pictures. I’ll be publishing them at the rate of one per day this...
Quico says: It really is a masterpiece of Ionesco-ish Latin American political lunacy: Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa responded to the video of FARC’s now top-ranking commander, Mono Jojoy,...
Quico says: Bloomberg has an excellent piece on the scale of the fiscal sink hole the government is in these days. Facing a budget deficit worth as much...
Quico says: Killer fact: 17% of all the cocaine produced in the Andes moves through Venezuela, now that the volume of coke trafficked through the country has risen...
Quico says: Mel Zelaya’s grandiloquent announcement yesterday that he intends to now lead an “insurrection” in Honduras as he walked out of the US-backed mediation effort in Costa...
Quico says: What follows over the next few days is an experiment: a shot at re-imagining what Caracas Chronicles might be like under a different, more Andrew Sullivanesque...
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