Lonely Planet, petro-state style
Katy says: Pick up a Lonely Planet Venezuela and it’ll tell you that one of the highlights of the country’s Eastern shore is the seaside village of San...
Life
Scandals Generate Terrorism
Quico says: Sometimes, I feel like this blog has turned into a kind of masochistic hunt for the one chavista outrage so bizarre, so over-the-top, so plain in...
We've been reduced to borrowing our scandals...
Quico says: I’m not going to write in detail about the $800,000 suitcase scandal, basically, because I haven’t really followed it. Follow the link if you want the...
Lashing out in Montevideo
Quico says: Reading through the transcript of Chávez’s speech in Uruguay on August the 8th – sorry, no link, I got it via email – is genuinely frightening....
Projection Chronicles
Chávez says: Demonize someone, demonize him and then you can justify anything. That’s the empire’s plan. They satanized everything, I remember Tabaré [Vásquez, president of Uruguay], when I...
Labor's love lost
Quico says: One abiding irony of leftist authoritarianism is the way the self-described vanguard of the working class cannot abide working class organizations it can’t control. Interior Minister...
The heat is on
Katy says: And the rhetorical about-face continues. I saw some recent polling data that shows that the only way the Constitutional reform could pass is if Chávez bundles...
Revolutionary Surplus Value
Quico says: So the Cuban government denies that it’s getting Venezuelan oil for free, noting that La Isla pays for most of its oil bill through the services...
To think CAP got impeached for misappropriating 250 million...bolivars!
Quico says: Here’s a galling number for you. In 2006, Venezuela sent Cuba oil shipments worth $3.4 billion. Cuba doesn’t seem to be actually paying for it, as...
Getting kidnapped: more trouble than it's worth
Quico says: Sometimes, amid all the high-fallutin’ talk about the rise of authoritarianism and the creeping onslaught on basic liberties, we lose sight of chavismo’s basic inability to...
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