Your ideas are not your ideas
Quico says: I’ve been fascinated by the responses to Chávez’s detailed invocation of Gramsci the other day. Most of the opposition is slightly dazed and confused by all...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Who would've thought it would come to this?
Quico says: It’s incredible that it’s come to this, but you can’t even talk about Venezuelan politics anymore without reading this.
The petrostate revisited
Quico says: Turns out David Frum liked my petrostate essay. Looking back, it’s probably the single post I’m most proud of.
Chavez vs. The Constitution
Quico says: These days it’s easy to forget, but in 1998 chavismo was all about the constitution. Hugo Chavez built his pitch to the nation around calls to...
Learning to cherish independent institutions
Quico says: Last week, the pro-Chávez Comando Alexis Vives marched onto the Central University campus and trashed the School of Journalism, spray-painting anti-RCTV and pro-government slogans all over...
It's a vast, vast, vast right-wing conspiracy. No, seriously, we mean vast!
Quico says: According to Chávez, the only reason he’s getting all this flack about closing RCTV is a giant conspiracy against him. “International rightist, extreme-rightist and fascist movements...
Say wha?
Katy says: Notes from the nonsensical revolution: – Interior Minister Pedro Carreño says, in a press conference for the ages, that people have a right to protest but...
More from Reporters Without Borders
RSF says: Unfortunately, there is no longer any doubt about Chávez’s goals: RCTV’s closure was just the prelude to the progressive disappearance of all the opposition press. Media...
My grandfather's ankle
My earliest political memory is of my grandfather’s ankle. I couldn’t have been more than 5 or 6. I was playing on the floor in front of him,...
The pot calling the kettle blackout
Quico says: Noticiero Digital’s editor, Roger Santodomingo, strikes me as an uncommonly lucid observer of our political reality. I took the trouble to translate part of his latest...
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