What Primero Justicia Wants, Part I: Oil and energy
Katy says: This is the first of a series of wonkish posts on the specific proposals of Venezuela’s opposition political parties. We start off with Caracas Chronicles’ exclusive...
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Quadruple U-Turn. With two backflips. And a watermelon on top.
Quico says: It’s a measure of the lunacy that saturates Venezuelan public life that a totally vanilla headline like “Leader urges hostages’ unconditional release” is seen as man-bites-dog...
Chávez Decree-Law Too Chavista for Chávez (but not for chavista hacks)
Quico says: One of the little pleasures of life in revolutionary times is watching the utter discombobulation of chavista hackdom whenever Fearless Leader pulls off one of his...
Triple Patriot Act. With a backflip. And a cherry on top.
Quico says: In some quarters it’s gotten trendy to compare Chávez’s new Intelligence Decree-Law to the Patriot Act. But as this Economist piece rightly notes, the Chávez decree...
The US election as though Venezuela mattered
Quico says: Dear U.S. Voter, Now that you have a clear choice between just two candidates in November, many of you will be asking, “yeah, ok, Iraq, yaddi-yadda,...
A Babalao Engineered Catch-22
Quico says: From Simón Romero’s troubling New York Times piece on Chávez’s new intelligence decree-law: One part of the law, which explicitly requires judges and prosecutors to cooperate...
Administering powerlessness
Quico says: I thought I should weigh in on the developing net-spat over opposition party bashing. It’s a sin I’ve been guilty of too often in the past,...
Padre Ugalde, you're wrong
Katy says: – Father Luis Ugalde, SJ, president of my alma mater, is a towering figure in Venezuelan academia. His life experience working with the poor, his willingness...
Lateinamerika Analysen - sehr gut!
Quico says: Considering my Ph.D. work has nothing at all to do with Venezuela, it’s slightly disconcerting that my first academic publication does: this week, my standard rant...
Welcome to the sausage factory
Katy says: – I’ve avoided posting about the opposition lately. We are approaching the moment when we will see if the bone of grand statements about unity will...
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