How to debate when you agree
Katy says: Dear Quico, Sorry it’s taken me so long to reply to your previous post, but I wanted to take my time before answering what, in essence,...
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Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
On the sheer fucking hopelessness of the Abstentionist v. Participationist Debate
Quico says: Dear Katy, Thanks for your last post. I’ve been trying to think of a way to join the fray here, but it’s been hard to think...
The state of the fight
Katy says: Six weeks have passed since the introduction of a proposal to reform the Constitution by Venezuela’s President, and now is as good a time as any...
El Otro Carrao
It’s 11 a.m. on a dazzling Paris autumn day and my favorite writer is telling me about his childhood in the Llanos during the Gómez dictatorship. “I always...
Tangled up & blue
Katy says: Dear readers: I apologize for being MIA. I have been swamped with work – my real work, that is – due to a pressing deadline. This...
Sorry, everyone...
Quico says: Travel. Work. Overwhelmed. Same for Katy. Back when we have a sec.
An oppo harakiri in the making
Quico says: A little bird just put Hinterlaces’ daily phone tracking poll for September 3rd, 4th and 5th in my inbox. It makes for some incredibly infuriating reading....
Poll chart anyone?
Quico says: Datanalisis’ latest poll, carried out between July 28th and August 7th (so, just before the official announcement) asked… “If there was a referendum next Sunday to...
Not Even the Dead are Safe in Caracas
Quico says: This article by Chris Kraul for the LA Times is instant fodder for the Reader’s Guide. Skulking in the dead of night in the remote and...
Chávez vs. Chávez
Chávez says: “It’s not true that I have a plan to perpetuate myself in power, and the proposal [for indefinite re-election] made by [then] Assembly member Luis Velásquez...
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