The ins and outs of zero zapping
Quico says: A few of you have written in with questions about monetary reform. Here’s my attempt to clear things up: First off, the practice of striking zeros...
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Two things
Quico says: Caracas Chronicles on Noticiero Digital is here. Chigüire on your dinner plate is here.
Who stands up for Maria Campos?
Katy says: Maria Campos came to Venezuela from her native Colombia 33 years ago, looking for a better life. She had three Venezuelan children. One of them, Nay...
The creeping criminalization of protest
Quico says: It’s a worrying and under-reported trend: protesting in public is increasingly liable to land you in jail in Venezuela. PROVEA, a homegrown human rights NGO, documented...
The Locha Angle
Quico says: Simón Romero hangs this whole long NYTimes story about monetary reform on the 12.5 cent bit. Seems to me he knows full well that this kind...
Et tu, Barbara?
Quico says: So Barb Walters’ drooling interview with Chávez pretty much blows a hole in my earlier, only-cranks-take- Chávez-seriously-in- the-US argument. Deep, deep sigh. Frankly, I find it...
Idi Rafael Amin Frías
Quico says: I went to see The Last King of Scotland the other day and frankly I didn’t much like it. I thought the script was poor and...
Watching my standards circling the drain...
Quico says: It’s true, now Caracas Chronicles is on Noticiero Digital.
The Ann Coulter of the Left
Quico says: So Chávez has wound up his Bushwhacking Tour 2007, to the general delight of the kind of people who generally delight in that sort of thing....
Monetary literalism
Quico says: Say a long history of devaluations, interest rate swings and double digit inflation has left people skeptical that your currency can function as a reliable store...
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