Idi Rafael Amin Frías
Quico says: I went to see The Last King of Scotland the other day and frankly I didn’t much like it. I thought the script was poor and...
Life
Watching my standards circling the drain...
Quico says: It’s true, now Caracas Chronicles is on Noticiero Digital.
The Ann Coulter of the Left
Quico says: So Chávez has wound up his Bushwhacking Tour 2007, to the general delight of the kind of people who generally delight in that sort of thing....
Monetary literalism
Quico says: Say a long history of devaluations, interest rate swings and double digit inflation has left people skeptical that your currency can function as a reliable store...
From my inbox...
Quico says: An old and dear friend writes in from Washington: Hey, um, sorry your country’s officially crossed the line into People’s Republic territory… AU finally managed to...
The one thing chavistas love more than Chávez
Quico says: I never thought I’d see the day. The three most significant pro-government parties other than Chávez’s own (Podemos, PPT and the Commies – which together got...
chutz·pah (noun)
also chutz·pa or hutz·pah or hutz·pa /'hut-sp&, '[k]ut-, -(")spä/[Etymology: Yiddish khutspe, from Late Hebrew huspAh]1. unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity 2. Rodrigo Cabezas. e.g. “Finance Minister Rodrigo Cabezas described...
Two Sukhois in the skies over Caracas
This is my translation of a piece by Ibsen Martínez, published last month in Buenos Aires‘ La Nación: Last Friday, February 2nd, I was crossing Caracas’s Avenida Miranda,...
The Bono del Sur Scam: Idiot-Proof Version
Quico says: We’ve been hearing a lot about this “Bono del Sur” thing. Confused? Here’s how it works: Basically, the Bono del Sur is a massive give away,...
Política monetaria de a locha
Quico says: Chávez yesterday on the upcoming monetary reform: Now, starting on January 1st, a dollar will not be worth two thousand one hundred some odd bolivars, but...
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