Al Qaeda scrambles chavismo's ideological circuits
Quico says: This Al Qaeda threat thing has thrown the Chávez government completely for a loop. This one was definitely not in their play-book, they seem to have...
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Al Qaeda: Laying it bare...
Quico says: Imagine you are an enemy of the United States. I don’t mean a rhetorical, fancy-speech giving, UN-podium hoggin’, radical-chic faux-enemy, I mean a real enemy. A...
Illiterate fly stew...
Quico says: By now, it’s more hackneyed cliché than eye-opening parable: if you drop a frog in boiling water, the thing just jumps out, but if you put...
On political common sense
Quico says: Political common sense is a bit like atmospheric pressure – omnipresent, terrifically important, but normally imperceptible to us. Political common sense is an implicit set of...
Chavenomics in a single chart...
Quico says: Pretty much everything you need to know about Chávez’s economic model you can learn from this chart. It’s an economic model of crushing simplicity: 1. Pump...
Hagamos dos, tres, ¡muchos bancos centrales!
Quico says: Another hat tip to Miguel for pointing out this hallucinatory interview with Central Bank director Domingo Maza Zavala in yesterday’s El Universal. The Maza Zavala we...
Datanalisis Poll Highlights
Quico says: Datanalisis’ January poll gives us some idea of the state of public opinion with Chávez on full steam ahead mode. The results are confounding. On the...
Oscar the brave
Katy says: This note from Spain’s EFE news service is sure to make some waves. Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias made an unusually...
Censor the Beeb
Katy says: This fawning BBC photo essay about a Chávez-sponsored organic farm in the middle of Caracas is not to be missed. Like any good Islington lefty, reporter...
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