The foreign correspondent's POV
Katy says: Posting will be light in the next few days. Quico is traveling and I’m full of work and family duties. But friend and all-too-infrequent poster Lucía...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Chávez for Spaniards
Quico says: Julio Rivas Pita, the man-on-the-ground here for Spain’s El Mundo, is running extracts from his upcoming book, Chávez para Españoles, in a new blog. His latest...
English court OKs partial privatization of PDVSA
Quico says: So, it turns out English courts have no jurisdiction over the PDVSA/ExxonMobil pissing match. They’ve just lifted the preliminary asset freeze on PDVSA, handing chavismo a...
Hello, fat man!
Katy says: Every Monday I get in my inbox the abridged transcript from the previous day’s political reality show, “Hello, Mr. President!” While I wouldn’t be caught dead...
The French Dieterich
Quico says: I’m starting to think of Bernard Henri-Lévy as the French Heinz Dieterich: a writer who combines deep insights with flashes of baffling idiocy in seemingly random...
Keller says
Quico says: Keller’s first quarter poll slides are making the rounds, and I took the liberty of translating the most interesting one below. (Click to enlarge:) In other...
Dato mata paja
Quico says: So, Minister Rodríguez Chacín, care to guess which is the only large economy in the region that has deepened its dependence on the US market since...
Dear Enemy, here's your $80 million...lets do this again tomorrow.
Quico says: More and more, I think the defining trait of chavismo is its penchant for deforming language; the capacity of words to transmit meanings that correspond to...
I say six
Katy says: The Catholic Church has announced a list of seven “social” sins, to add to its list of seven Cardinal sins. They are: 1. “Bioethical’ violations such...
The SSOT scenario
Katy says: Last week’s bizarre diplomatic/military crisis left many uncovered manholes. One of the biggest comes from the information supposedly contained in Raul Reyes’ computer, showing the deep...
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