Quico says: 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...
Quico says: Want to know how to blame the retail sector for its own expropriation? Ask yourself this: So, really, the choice is up to you. You can...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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