SSOT? Maybe. Criminal conspirator? Definitely.
Quico says: What would it take to get Mark Weisbrot, Larry Birns & co. genuinely cheesed off at the Venezuelan government? Would documentary evidence that Chávez had actively...
Life
Chávez and Correa give the game away
Quico says: I’d been planning to wait until Thursday’s Interpol report on the authenticity of the Reyes laptops to join this particularly sordid fray, but really there’s no...
Gather around, kiddies: grandpa's a gonna tell a story!
Quico says: In the latest Letras Libres (in Spanish), Alberto Barrera Tyszka and Ibsen Martínez sit down for a long chat with old man Petkoff. Turns out Teodoro’s...
"Broader and deeper"
Quico says: Hats off to José de Córdoba and Jay Solomon: their front-page investigative piece on the real extent of the Chávez-FARC nexus revealed by Raúl Reyes’s laptops...
A debate about nothing
Quico says: There’s a desperate, clawing pathos to it: the painfully fake debate Chávez made the A.N. hold over “Zulia secessionism” ended with parliamentarians approving a strongly worded...
Dept. of Magical Language
Quico says: So speaking to reporters the other day, Planning Minister Haiman “Orwelito” El Troudi accepted that the last few rounds of sovereign bond issues have created an...
New template
Quico says: After a morning wasted fiddling around with the blog’s software, I’ve now upgraded to one of Google’s new style Blogger templates. It looks pretty much like...
Dept. of Luz Pa'la Calle
Quico says: Joy was uncontained in Venezuela today as the government announced that, thanks to the millions of dollars it has invested in the electric industry, there will...
A Euro-Oil Peg?
Quico says: Chavez, Ahmadinejad & co. have made something of a hobby horse of it: Oil should be traded in Euros rather than sullied by association with the...
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