Things that make you go plop
Quico says: From the Wall Street Journal’s perdida-less exposé on Franklin Duran, of Venoco and Maletazo fame: Mr. [Guido] Antonini even drove a Porsche Boxster with a bumper...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Caption Competition, Rio Group Style
Quico says: Is it just me, or did that meeting today make no sense at all? After a half-day summit where they called one another everything from green-belly...
La Vanguardia deconstructs Chávez's Mechanized Reality Show
Quico says: Have you noticed yet? I love good journalism. There isn’t much that gives me a bigger thrill than finding a perfectly crafted bit of reporting. Like,...
Gay marriage in Venezuela
Katy says: In a little noted decision, the Supreme Tribunal of Venezuela recently rejected the possibility of legalizing gay marriage in Venezuela. The majority opinion by Justice Pedro...
Movimiento 1,373
Quico says: Colombia has taken a justified pounding over the way it flouted International Law in attacking Raul Reyes’s Ecuadorean jungle hideout. The states brandishing the sanctity of...
The Eudomarian Republic of Venezuela
“Como vaya viniendo, vamos viendo…” Eudomar Santos, character in the legendary 1990s soap opera Por Estas Calles Katy says: Venezuelan President Chávez recently announced that he was deploying...
The kind of war we're going to have...
Quico says: As we all take to hyperventilating about the looming war with Colombia, it’s worth pausing to ponder the kind of war footing the country is really...
Now we're cooking without gas
Quico says: One thing I always struggle to convey is the nearly complete divorce between revolutionary discourse and practice, the yawning, widening gap not just between what is...
Chavez raises the stakes
Katy says: Hugo Chávez is playing a dangerous game with Colombia, and indirectly, with the US. Today he announced that he was shutting down Venezuela’s Embassy in Bogotá,...
The opposition's identity problem
Katy says: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is not my favorite. Still, I make it a point to read her since a lot of people do. Sometimes,...
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