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Quico says: An old and dear friend writes in from Washington: Hey, um, sorry your country’s officially crossed the line into People’s Republic territory… AU finally managed to...
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The one thing chavistas love more than Chávez
Quico says: I never thought I’d see the day. The three most significant pro-government parties other than Chávez’s own (Podemos, PPT and the Commies – which together got...
chutz·pah (noun)
also chutz·pa or hutz·pah or hutz·pa /'hut-sp&, '[k]ut-, -(")spä/[Etymology: Yiddish khutspe, from Late Hebrew huspAh]1. unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity 2. Rodrigo Cabezas. e.g. “Finance Minister Rodrigo Cabezas described...
Two Sukhois in the skies over Caracas
This is my translation of a piece by Ibsen Martínez, published last month in Buenos Aires‘ La Nación: Last Friday, February 2nd, I was crossing Caracas’s Avenida Miranda,...
The Bono del Sur Scam: Idiot-Proof Version
Quico says: We’ve been hearing a lot about this “Bono del Sur” thing. Confused? Here’s how it works: Basically, the Bono del Sur is a massive give away,...
Política monetaria de a locha
Quico says: Chávez yesterday on the upcoming monetary reform: Now, starting on January 1st, a dollar will not be worth two thousand one hundred some odd bolivars, but...
El Caracazo: The unseen military cover-up
Katy says: Yesterday was the anniversary of El Caracazo, a day that no Venezuelan can ever forget. On February 27th, 1989, thousands of poor people poured into the...
The red submarines
Katy says: Chilean newspaper El Mercurio reprinted a story today originally broken by Argentine daily Clarín: Chávez is in the market to buy nine new submarines for the...
A response from Alek Boyd re: Primero Justicia
Katy says: Fellow blogger Alek Boyd had a different take on Primero Justicia’s split than the one I expressed. I don’t have an agenda on this issue, and...
On political common sense, Part 2: Their side
Quico says: Two weeks ago, I wrote this long piece on the deeper reasons why chavismo is so profoundly unacceptable to those of us in the opposition. I...
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