A preemptive purge?
Quico says: A consensus of sorts seems to be emerging to explain the sudden move against the Supreme Tribunal’s Constitutional Chamber. It’s based on three premises: The pretense...
Life
Laureano does Babel
Quico says: I’ve been finding it more and more difficult to write about Venezuela without sounding either alarmist or flippant, (or even worse, an odd combination of the...
Cabrerita en su salsa
Quico says: For the last several years, Supreme Tribunal Magistrate Jesús Eduardo Cabrera has been Venezuela’s leading purveyor of tortured and bizarre (but always government friendly) legal interpretations....
Defining delivery down...
Quico says: The sign reads: The President and the Mayor CAME THROUGH Construction of the new building for the Pérez de León Hospital and Mother and Child Unit....
The ins and outs of zero zapping
Quico says: A few of you have written in with questions about monetary reform. Here’s my attempt to clear things up: First off, the practice of striking zeros...
Two things
Quico says: Caracas Chronicles on Noticiero Digital is here. Chigüire on your dinner plate is here.
Who stands up for Maria Campos?
Katy says: Maria Campos came to Venezuela from her native Colombia 33 years ago, looking for a better life. She had three Venezuelan children. One of them, Nay...
The creeping criminalization of protest
Quico says: It’s a worrying and under-reported trend: protesting in public is increasingly liable to land you in jail in Venezuela. PROVEA, a homegrown human rights NGO, documented...
The Locha Angle
Quico says: Simón Romero hangs this whole long NYTimes story about monetary reform on the 12.5 cent bit. Seems to me he knows full well that this kind...
Et tu, Barbara?
Quico says: So Barb Walters’ drooling interview with Chávez pretty much blows a hole in my earlier, only-cranks-take- Chávez-seriously-in- the-US argument. Deep, deep sigh. Frankly, I find it...
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