New Comments Software
Quico says: As some of you know, I’ve had a long-running hate-hate relationship with Haloscan, the outfit that desiugned the comments software I’ve been using for the last...
Life
Yes we can!
Juan Cristobal says: – They say politics makes strange bedfellows. But in the history of bedfellows, has there ever been an odder couple than the two in the...
Hugo Chávez, Union Buster
Quico says: You gotta hand it to Chávez. We’re almost a decade into this whole mess and somehow he still manages to surprise, to amaze even. Yesterday’s little...
Primaries and the Oppo Brand
Quico says: Tomorrow, the Venezuelan opposition is going to do something we have never done before: choose a gubernatorial candidate through a primary election. As it turns out,...
Poverty beyond the spin
Juan Cristobal says: – If you didn’t know anything about Venezuela and you stumbled upon this AP story, you would think Hugo Chávez’s management of the economy was...
Who loves ya?!
Quico says: Here’s an innovative take on the budding Chávez-Medvedev lovematch: Neither Medvedev nor Chavez were being very direct about why they are deepenig the relationship, and I...
The forgotten trailblazer
Juan Cristobal says: Take a look at this picture. Quick: can you tell me who this man is? If you can’t – and I bet you can’t –...
New Survey!
Quico says: Following on from that very enlightening Reader’s Survey last week, Juan Cristobal, Lucia and I put together a second, much more detailed survey of readers’ political...
81% of you
Quico says: So if my Readers’ Survey is to be trusted, 81% of you won’t mind if I post a link to a piece in Spanish. This one...
Extra! Extra! Opposition Fails to Shoot Self In Foot!
Quico says: The opposition political class is held in dismally low esteem by most of our readers, but sometimes this has its advantages. For one, it makes it...
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