Great Moments in Implausible Deniability
Quico says: So National Assembly deputy Pedro Ortega thinks (and I use the word “think” loosely here) that responsibility for the Intelligence Decree-Law fiasco belongs not, as you...
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The Making of the New Elite
Quico says: What does it take to ‘make it big’ in this society? What do the most ambitious people here feel they need to do to ‘make it...
Charm offensive, cash in hand
Quico says: Time was when he’d look genuinely upset that he’d lost his cool and raised his hand against you. He’d show up all sheepish like, flowers in...
A white rose by any other name
Katy says: – Venezuela’s “Moral Power” asked today for two Supreme Court Justices to be impeached and fired from the Court. The move comes as a surprise since...
What Primero Justicia Wants, Part I: Oil and energy
Katy says: This is the first of a series of wonkish posts on the specific proposals of Venezuela’s opposition political parties. We start off with Caracas Chronicles’ exclusive...
Quadruple U-Turn. With two backflips. And a watermelon on top.
Quico says: It’s a measure of the lunacy that saturates Venezuelan public life that a totally vanilla headline like “Leader urges hostages’ unconditional release” is seen as man-bites-dog...
Chávez Decree-Law Too Chavista for Chávez (but not for chavista hacks)
Quico says: One of the little pleasures of life in revolutionary times is watching the utter discombobulation of chavista hackdom whenever Fearless Leader pulls off one of his...
Triple Patriot Act. With a backflip. And a cherry on top.
Quico says: In some quarters it’s gotten trendy to compare Chávez’s new Intelligence Decree-Law to the Patriot Act. But as this Economist piece rightly notes, the Chávez decree...
The US election as though Venezuela mattered
Quico says: Dear U.S. Voter, Now that you have a clear choice between just two candidates in November, many of you will be asking, “yeah, ok, Iraq, yaddi-yadda,...
A Babalao Engineered Catch-22
Quico says: From Simón Romero’s troubling New York Times piece on Chávez’s new intelligence decree-law: One part of the law, which explicitly requires judges and prosecutors to cooperate...
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