Periodization
Quico says: My guess now is that when the historians of the future come to periodize the Chávez era, they’ll settle on something like: December 1998 – November...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Comments worth reading
Quico says: One of the great joys of blogging is when a post sets off a really good debate. The comments thread following my previous post was one...
The Barrage
There are missiles coming from every direction. In just a few weeks, it was the comisarios, the ports and airports, Rosales, Ledezma, the Miranda clinics, the oil service...
Denying Plausible Deniability
Quico says: What I find most significant about Chavez’s announcement that he has decided to shut down Globovision is, precisely, that he announced it. Think about it: if...
Apocalypse Now
Quico says: Gah! I really don’t have time to blog about it properly right now. But Chavez’s move to seize the oil sector’s private contractors is a catastrophe...
Apologies
Quico says: I really should apologize for the light posting recently. Over the last two weeks, I’ve been in the middle of a hideously complicated international move, not...
Everything you ever wanted to know about April 11th and weren't afraid to ask
Quico says: Following our Skype Interview last month, Aprileleventhologist extraordinaire Brian Nelson kindly agreed to answer some of your questions about his six years of research into the...
Thoughts on the Eve of the Fifth Anniversary of 1M
Now also on Huffo. Quico says: Some events are so momentous, so history shaking, all you need to refer to them is a date. 911 is, I suppose,...
The problem with the hero theory
Quico says: I do realize there’s one fairly basic problem with the “hero” theory of Venezuelan redemption: it relies, ultimately, on power’s sense of shame. Ghandi’s campaign, in...
Heroes
Quico says: Juan Forero’s report for the Washington Post on the growing crackdown against the opposition paints a dismal picture of the extremes to which the government’s strategy...
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