The elevator speech
Juan Cristobal says: Imagine you’re working to get someone elected and you run into an undecided voter in an elevator. You have thirty seconds to convince this voter...
Life
Reading the Referendum Tea Leaves
Quico says: I haven’t been writing much about the upcoming referendum on abolishing term limits, for a couple of reasons. The whole thing’s been rushed through so fast...
The Parable of the Leaves
[coming soon on Huffo…] Quico says: Talk about Venezuela these days and people assume the argument splits neatly between two camps: nutty Pat Robertson-style Chavez-hating right-wingers who couldn’t...
51 years on from that one, fleeting, dizzying flash of no-bullshit national unity
Quico says: If I told you that, in the wake of a sham referendum aimed at keeping the president in power forever, Venezuelans of all kinds – left...
Minc(i)ed Facts
Quico says: A couple of readers have pointed me to this remarkable Information Ministry press release, which one of them surmises must be an implicit response to my...
Any questions?
Obama says: “To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West — know that your people will judge...
Six of one, half a dozen of the other
Quico says: Yesterday’s post was one I’d been meaning to get off my chest for a long time. It felt good to put it out there. Still, there’s...
For Chávez, Obama = Bush
Quico says: My new post is up on The Huffington Post.
The Great "Excess Reserves" Swindle
Quico says: The idea that the Central Bank’s International Reserves are a kind of “rainy day fund” where the government puts away some of its dollars so it...
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