They're real ... and they're spectacular
Katy says: – Well, Interpol confirmed what everyone already knew: that the three laptops, three USB drives and two portable hard drives the Colombian government claims belonged to...
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Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Obsessions make the man
Katy says: – The US, the Constitutional Reform, the FARC, Fidel – these are some of Chávez’s well-known obsessions. His latest one is November’s Regional Elections. Lately, not...
SSOT? Maybe. Criminal conspirator? Definitely.
Quico says: What would it take to get Mark Weisbrot, Larry Birns & co. genuinely cheesed off at the Venezuelan government? Would documentary evidence that Chávez had actively...
Chávez and Correa give the game away
Quico says: I’d been planning to wait until Thursday’s Interpol report on the authenticity of the Reyes laptops to join this particularly sordid fray, but really there’s no...
Gather around, kiddies: grandpa's a gonna tell a story!
Quico says: In the latest Letras Libres (in Spanish), Alberto Barrera Tyszka and Ibsen Martínez sit down for a long chat with old man Petkoff. Turns out Teodoro’s...
"Broader and deeper"
Quico says: Hats off to José de Córdoba and Jay Solomon: their front-page investigative piece on the real extent of the Chávez-FARC nexus revealed by Raúl Reyes’s laptops...
A debate about nothing
Quico says: There’s a desperate, clawing pathos to it: the painfully fake debate Chávez made the A.N. hold over “Zulia secessionism” ended with parliamentarians approving a strongly worded...
Dept. of Magical Language
Quico says: So speaking to reporters the other day, Planning Minister Haiman “Orwelito” El Troudi accepted that the last few rounds of sovereign bond issues have created an...
New template
Quico says: After a morning wasted fiddling around with the blog’s software, I’ve now upgraded to one of Google’s new style Blogger templates. It looks pretty much like...
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