A step towards dictatorship
Quico says: If you read this blog regularly, you know how the loose use of terms like “totalitarian”, “dictator”, “fascist”, etc. drives me up a wall. After 10...
Life
How squeaky clean is Teodoro Petkoff?
Quico says: So squeaky clean that, after what was doubtlessly a detailed investigation into anything and everything the guy’s been up to over a half century of public...
Criminalizing dissent
Quico says: Nobody could be surprised by Chávez’s decision to jail the man who, more than any other, saved his skin in the 2002 coup. The arrest of...
Green with envy yet, Hugo?
Juan Cristobal says: – Check out who Barack Obama thinks is the “most popular politician on the planet.” Hint: it’s not Hugo Chavez. http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/external/player.swf
The scarcity of scarcity
Juan Cristobal says: – Today’s edition of El Universal carries an interview with Planning Minister Jorge Giordani, Chavez’s economic pater-familias. Giordani is usually a bland, boring guy, but...
PSF-ari
Juan Cristobal says: – Kudos to Alexander Cuadros of Slate. While in Caracas, he sought out the foreigners who make the Revolution their home to ask them –...
Danny's Move
Quico says: Now that Hugo Chávez has come out as a personal supporter of Omar Al Bashir, will Darfur genocide activist Danny Glover see fit to raise a...
Hugo and Omar, sitting on a tree...
…K-I-S-S-I-N-G… Quico says: OK, ok…lets line up our ducks in a row here, Huguito. You got a beef with the politization of the International Criminal Court? You oppose...
Dear G20, Please Stop Buying Our Oil...
Quico says: My latest piece in the Guardian’s Comment is Free site is now up. (Notice: 500 words, and not one of them is “Chávez”!) The comments thread...
Dear Nobel Prize for Economics Selection Committee: Your Search Ends Here
Quico says: In a feat of unparalleled economic mastery yesterday, Hugo Chávez proposed a new international currency to be backed by underground oil reserves: the Petro. Canadian Prime...
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