Isn't a false "false positive" just a positive?
Venezuelan government spokesmen sound genuinely worried about a Colombian attack on the border region these days. Talk of a "False Positive" – an attempt, as the Venezuelan government...
Life
Watching History from the Sidelines
As the lights go out, the government shrugs its shoulders. "Nothing to do with us. El Niño did it!" Apparently that Cuban Cloud-zapping Ray wasn’t all it was...
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Tuna-maros
It’s extremely difficult to reach any firm conclusions from reading the Nuevo Herald’s head-spinning tale of Ricardo Fernández Barrueco’s various entanglements with Raul Castro, Hugo Carvajal, Disip, attempted...
Supermassive
Quico says: I’m still not over Chávez’s speech in Copenhagen last week. It’s been a long time since Hugo Chávez has sent my blood pressure to those lofty...
Big Oil has landed: Hugo Chávez in Copenhagen
Quico and Juan Cristobal say: What do you think would happen if the head of one of the world’s five largest oil companies started lecturing the UN Climate...
Ten Years on From The Stillborn Constitution
Quico says: …rumors, partly fueled by Aristóbulo’s keynote address to the National Assembly, are now heavy that Chávez is considering launching a fresh constituyente – a Constitutional Convention...
Where the Maisanta Bodies Are Buried
Quico says: Venezuela is far from the first country where an autocratic regime has used its economic muscle to systematically punish dissidents where it hurts: in their pocketbooks....
ME-O bids adieu-o
Juan Cristobal says: Chile held the first round of Presidential voting yesterday, and since I’m married to the place Quico asked me to pitch in. While most news...
Book 'em!
Quico says: As I think about it, the truly newsworthy aspect of the jailing of the judge who freed Eligio Cedeño isn’t that they jailed her – hell,...
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