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Quico says: I’ve just realized for the last who-knows-how-long, the little sign-up form on the right for Email delivery hadn’t been working. It’s now fixed. If you want...
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Corruption? What corruption?
Quico says: How can it be that the government only prosecutes corruption cases when the accused are Chávez opponents? It drives me batty. Nothing chavismo does makes my...
Ledezma Making Sense
Quico says: No, I can’t believe I’m writing this either, but we need to face up: Caracas’s embattled mayor, Antonio Ledezma is turning out to be a far...
Even the liberal New Republic...
Quico says: …wants to know what Venezuelans thought of The Handshake.
Chokin' on my cornflakes...
Quico says: Yes, it’s the course of action I explicitly recommended a few months ago. Yes, my brain knows this is the smart thing. Still, I couldn’t help...
A comprehensive theory of ChávezTime
Quico says: Chavismo, as the saying goes, is “more-of-the-same, only worse”. It’s one my favorite tropes on the Chávez era. What I like best about that reduction is...
April 12th: Putting it all together
Quico says: Click here for the Second Part of my interview with Brian Nelson, author of The Silence and The Scorpion: The Coup Against Chávez and the Making...
April 11th: Putting it all together
Listen to my interview with Brian Nelson, author of The Silence and The Scorpion, here.Quico says: Seven years on, the events of April 11, 2002, haunt Venezuela as...
The "dictatorship" canard
Quico says: I’m always amazed by the kinds of debates that ensue when somebody in the anti-Chavez camp strays from oppo groupthink and declares something that, in the...
A step towards dictatorship
Quico says: If you read this blog regularly, you know how the loose use of terms like “totalitarian”, “dictator”, “fascist”, etc. drives me up a wall. After 10...
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