Party Pooper
Quico says: Dear Katy, I’ll start by noting what we agree on. There’s no doubt that there’s a psycho edge to a lot of the party whackery we...
Life
Party time
Si mi muerte contribuye a que cesen los partidos y se consolide la unión, bajaré tranquilo al sepulcro. Simón Bolívar Katy says: I once knew a family who...
Rules of engagement
Katy says: A New Electoral Year has begun. The main focus right now on the minds of local politicos is – or should be! – the State and...
Reading the Magical State
Quico says: The Magical State, the 1997 monograph on Venezuelan petrocracy by University of Michigan anthropologist Fernando Coronil, is a magisterial, bone-headed, brilliant, infuriating, path breaking failure: a...
A goat, a black jenny, a white mare and a good mother-in-law
Katy says: And a happy 2008 to you! After a well-deserved break, this blog is back in action. Things were quiet toward the end of the year but...
2007: The year in review
Katy, Quico and Lucia say: What a year it’s been. Just twelve months ago, Hugo Chávez strode Venezuela’s political scene like a colossus and the opposition was worn...
Great Moments in Profound Reflection
Quico says: As the Suitcase Full’o’Cash scandal metastasizes, and Carlos Kauffman (another of Juan Carlos Zapata’s publicly identified Bolibourgeois Idols) starts memorizing the water stain patterns on his...
What would Mafalda say?
Katy says: Year’s worth of Maybeline makeup… $1,000Botox injections … $600Designer dress … $1,000Spiked Manolo Blahniks to wear for a summit … $450Collagen injections for your lips …...
¿Y dónde están las actas?
Quico says: Yesterday I interviewed Primero Justicia’s representative to CNE, Juan Carlos Caldera, about the “mystery of the tallysheets” – where the copies of the actas are, and...
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