VDM
Juan Cristóbal says: – http://www.youtube.com/v/MDUdBeytMVE&hl=en&fs=1&The head of Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Chavista Justice had a fit of anger the other day. During a press conference, Justice Luisa Estella...
Life
The-most-expensive-city-in-Latin-America-Chronicles
Juan Cristóbal says: – Life in our fair, not-quite-socialist capital city is highlighted in a NY Times piece by Simón Romero and Gregory Kristof, only not in the...
The "Hilo Constitucional" vs. The Constitution
Quico says: Lets say that, as the ALBA block claims to believe, the interruption of constitutional rule in Honduras is simply unacceptable and Zelaya has to be restored...
Fuel to the Fire
Quico says: Child rapist Daniel Ortega (a.k.a. the president of Nicaragua) has apparently decided that Central America isn’t quite tense and unstable enough as it is. Fresh from...
The view from my window
Montreal, Canada – 10: 44 a.m.Thanks to everyone who’s taken the time to send in pictures. I’ll be publishing them at the rate of one per day this...
The socialist auction
Juan Cristóbal says: Rumors of a not-quite-overt devaluation of Venezuela’s fixed exchange rate system continue to swirl. The last few months, there have been suggestions that Cadivi, Venezuela’s...
Hey Correa, how about we ask Mono Jojoy if he'll take a polygraph?
Quico says: It really is a masterpiece of Ionesco-ish Latin American political lunacy: Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa responded to the video of FARC’s now top-ranking commander, Mono Jojoy,...
88 billion of your bolivars, and counting...
Quico says: Bloomberg has an excellent piece on the scale of the fiscal sink hole the government is in these days. Facing a budget deficit worth as much...
When Good Neighbors Become Good Friends
Quico says: Killer fact: 17% of all the cocaine produced in the Andes moves through Venezuela, now that the volume of coke trafficked through the country has risen...
Does Chávez want a proxy war in Honduras?
Quico says: Mel Zelaya’s grandiloquent announcement yesterday that he intends to now lead an “insurrection” in Honduras as he walked out of the US-backed mediation effort in Costa...
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