Chávez shoots at an open goal, scores
Quico says: Noting that “sovereignty” starts from the bottom up, Chávez today challenged the opposition to follow PSUV’s lead and hold internal elections for important party posts. For...
Life
Chávez names his price
Juan Cristóbal says: – This buried little nugget in state-owned wire service ABN is startling in its honesty. In it, Under-Secretary Francisco Arias Cárdenas very clearly declares what...
Villa del Tukiti
Quico says: Don’t miss Mac Margolis’s epic mauling of Villa del Cine, Hugo’s vanity movie studio, in the current issue Newsweek. To wit: Just inside the studio gates,...
The Universal Yawn
Quico says: The really remarkable thing about the reaction to Chávez’s latest obscene little warriorist hissy fit against Colombia is the sheer universality of the disinterest it elicited....
The view from your window: Parque Central
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War games
Juan Cristóbal says: – Once in a while, Quico and I get emails from readers in Colombia asking about Hugo Chávez’s latest antics vis-a-vis their government. Since yesterday...
The view from your window: Chicago
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The expected begins to happen
Juan Cristóbal says: – Courageous Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez was briefly kidnapped from the streets of Havana by unidentified thugs and beaten. Her harrowing account is here, in...
Owning up to one's bad calls
Juan Cristóbal says: – Barely a week after we were declaring the Honduras crisis all but over, we get news the agreement has collapsed. Not only that, a...
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