So you wanna be the leader of the opposition?
Juan Cristóbal says: – Here are six things you need to do. MEMOTo: Antonio LedezmaFrom: Caracas ChroniclesSubject: How to be an effective leader of the opposition and win...
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Making Caracas look more and more like Havanna
Juan Cristóbal says: – The new nuttiness at the National Assembly? Regulating the price of housing, new and used. The geniuses want to set minimum and maximum prices...
Pataconfabulation
Quico says: Seeing how I’m caraqueño (and therefore, um, civilized) I’m strictly barred from expressing any actual enthusiasm for something as maracucho as a patacón sandwich. Others of...
Mental Health Break: Here by Popular Demand
http://www.youtube.com/v/eCwoGMt-38A&hl=en&fs=1& Is it wrong that, as a child, I had a crush on a toilet bowl? Post 48 of 100. Classic.
The Micheletti Budget Squeeze: Not All That
Quico says: So, the EU has cut some $92 million in budget aid to the de facto government in Honduras, citing lack of progress in the Arias-mediated negotiations....
Caracas Chronicles - soon banned in Caracas?
Juan Cristóbal says: – This story by Chris Kraul of the LA Times is remarkable in that it reports on the government’s intents to crack down not just...
Los Papeles de Insulza
Quico says: Something is very weird in Latin America when the head of OAS starts sounding like an agit-prop talk show host on Venezuelan State Television. Because José...
Alfredo Maneiro Turning In His Grave
Quico says: The irony in yesterday’s thuggish repression in Guayana is bitter. When the government re-nationalized steelmaker SIDOR last year, it made a big show of renaming it...
The View from Your Window
Denver, Colorado – 10:00 a.m. Feel like sharing the view from your window? Send a snapshot along to [email protected] Post 43 of 100. Ufff…some of you read from...
Censoring the Latifundists of the Steelmill
Quico says: TalCual leads today with an even-more-stomach-turning-than-average case of censorship. Because we’re not talking about censorship against the “latifundists of the airwaves” anymore, but instead against the...
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