How Native Has Zelaya Gone?
Quico says: So native the guy is prattling on about assassination plots now! Weak, weak, WEAK! Post 72 of 100. I’ll say it one more time: WEAK!
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The Dog that Didn't FARC
Quico says: Simón Romero’s take in today’s New York Times on the gasket Chávez blew when he heard about the new US-Colombia military agreement gets a “could do...
Chigüwin!
Chigüi says: “PDVSA Anaco workers protest for their rights, but in favor of Chávez, but against the government, but with the revolution!” Krauze’s book, incidentally, has a brilliant...
How you can be 100% sure chavismo is a dead end...
Quico says: This story, culled from Newsweek, shows more than just about anything else why chavismo is destined to be remembered as a historical dead end. It calculates...
However silly a Chávez parody may be, real chavismo will match it
Quico says: From El Universal’s analysis of a National Assembly document entitled “Debate about the social relations of production, in Reference to the wholesale reform of the Framework...
An overlooked milestone
Juan Cristóbal says: – Yesterday, the good people of Curiepe staged a protest against the government for its heavy-handed actions in taking over the local police station last...
Jaime Bayly: October, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/v/N6gvFcKougM&hl=en&fs=1&Quico says: South America’s premiere acid tongued, fire-throwing pundit let Zelaya have it back in October last year, when he signed onto the ALBA pact. Though entertaining –...
A controversial finding on poverty
Juan Cristóbal says: – UCAB Sociologist Luis Pedro España knows about poverty. Having spent years thinking about the topic, he is one of the rare researchers in Venezuela...
How Honduras-crazy has the Venezuelan Media gone?
Quico says: So Honduras-crazy that they have their own top-level menu on El Nacional’s website now…and it’s actually ahead the National news tab! Post 64 of 100. Silly.
Too Hot for VTV: The Cedice Ad The Government Won't Let You see
http://www.youtube.com/v/SyNv7rbGtKc&hl=en&fs=1&Quico says: Yes, it’s pretty hard-hitting. But doesn’t the government grasp that it loses more by giving it the notoriety that comes from having been censored than they...
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