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...
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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...
El Caracazo: The unseen military cover-up
Katy says: Yesterday was the anniversary of El Caracazo, a day that no Venezuelan can ever forget. On February 27th, 1989, thousands of poor people poured into the...
The red submarines
Katy says: Chilean newspaper El Mercurio reprinted a story today originally broken by Argentine daily Clarín: Chávez is in the market to buy nine new submarines for the...
A response from Alek Boyd re: Primero Justicia
Katy says: Fellow blogger Alek Boyd had a different take on Primero Justicia’s split than the one I expressed. I don’t have an agenda on this issue, and...
On political common sense, Part 2: Their side
Quico says: Two weeks ago, I wrote this long piece on the deeper reasons why chavismo is so profoundly unacceptable to those of us in the opposition. I...
Breaking up is hard to do
Katy says: A few days ago Primero Justicia, Venezuela’s third-largest political party, suffered a public split. A group led by Chacao mayor Leopoldo López (pictured right) and former...
Six slides is all it takes
There’s something vaguely embarrassing about the whole debate about food shortages taking place in Venezuela these days. Because, really, there’s nothing to debate: the way price controls lead...
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