Prohibition makes a comeback
Katy says: In Venezuela, we have a popular saying: “pagan justos por pecadores”, roughly “the just pay for the sins of the sinners.” This was never more true...
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Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
I think what he thinks, but backwards
Quico says: Phil Gunson writes a delicious bit of Chávez debunkery in Tuesday’s Miami Herald. Money grafs: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was on the ethanol bandwagon. Until, that...
Don't term-limit the revolution
Katy says: One of the hot-button issues in Venezuela these days is the upcoming Constitutional reform that will propose lifting term limits on the Presidency and allowing indefinite...
Mutatis mutandi bis
Quico says: This new research, though still preliminary, is certainly eye-popping. We investigate political profiling by presenting the results of the Prosecutor General’s Office’s investigation and/or indictment of...
Caracas on the Potomac - or is it Washington on the Guaire?
(…a cesspool or a sewer?) Quico says: This editorial in The New Republic brings me around to a theme you’ve seen here before: the eerie parallels between George...
Our alligator
Quico says: I apologize for the hiatus on CC. Truth is, I can find nothing to post about. I thought about writing a suitably alarmed post about Seniat’s...
A preemptive purge?
Quico says: A consensus of sorts seems to be emerging to explain the sudden move against the Supreme Tribunal’s Constitutional Chamber. It’s based on three premises: The pretense...
Laureano does Babel
Quico says: I’ve been finding it more and more difficult to write about Venezuela without sounding either alarmist or flippant, (or even worse, an odd combination of the...
Cabrerita en su salsa
Quico says: For the last several years, Supreme Tribunal Magistrate Jesús Eduardo Cabrera has been Venezuela’s leading purveyor of tortured and bizarre (but always government friendly) legal interpretations....
Defining delivery down...
Quico says: The sign reads: The President and the Mayor CAME THROUGH Construction of the new building for the Pérez de León Hospital and Mother and Child Unit....
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