Chavez vs. The Constitution
Quico says: These days it’s easy to forget, but in 1998 chavismo was all about the constitution. Hugo Chavez built his pitch to the nation around calls to...
Life
Learning to cherish independent institutions
Quico says: Last week, the pro-Chávez Comando Alexis Vives marched onto the Central University campus and trashed the School of Journalism, spray-painting anti-RCTV and pro-government slogans all over...
It's a vast, vast, vast right-wing conspiracy. No, seriously, we mean vast!
Quico says: According to Chávez, the only reason he’s getting all this flack about closing RCTV is a giant conspiracy against him. “International rightist, extreme-rightist and fascist movements...
Say wha?
Katy says: Notes from the nonsensical revolution: – Interior Minister Pedro Carreño says, in a press conference for the ages, that people have a right to protest but...
More from Reporters Without Borders
RSF says: Unfortunately, there is no longer any doubt about Chávez’s goals: RCTV’s closure was just the prelude to the progressive disappearance of all the opposition press. Media...
My grandfather's ankle
My earliest political memory is of my grandfather’s ankle. I couldn’t have been more than 5 or 6. I was playing on the floor in front of him,...
The pot calling the kettle blackout
Quico says: Noticiero Digital’s editor, Roger Santodomingo, strikes me as an uncommonly lucid observer of our political reality. I took the trouble to translate part of his latest...
This is the logo for the cause
Katy says: Or at least the first I’ve seen.
1,241 editors can't all be wrong...
Quico says: According to Google News, wire service stories about the protests in Venezuela this week have been picked up by 1,241 publications around the world. And that’s...
Fuenteovejuna, señor.
Katy says: Our old friend Pepe sends us this link from Noticiero Digital. Three hundred students from Central University in Caracas have decided to turn themselves in to...
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