By Bolivian author Juan Claudio Lechín, La Paz, Bolivia ( translated from the Spanish by Katy) Two years ago, Venezuela agreed to be the gue...

Katy says: I have always been curious about Trinidad and Tobago, our neighbor to the northeast. I have never been there but would would love...

Katy says: Roberto Smith withdrew from the Presidential race today, and immediately gave his support to Manuel Rosales. I owe it to Quico to...

Katy says: This little item made me chuckle. Turns out that Caracas is the place in the world where Britney Spears has been googled the most...

Katy says: A loyal reader kindly took up the offer to translate Juan Barreto's speech. Thanks! This is a work in progress, so any sugges...

Katy says: I vowed to stay away from the topic of Barreto's tantrum (for sanitary reasons, mainly), but the more I think about it the mo...

Katy says: The internet is abuzz with Caracas Mayor Juan Barreto's tantrum last night , where he proved once again what a disgraceful, b...

Katy says: I'm busy with work these days, so I will only be posting lightly. There are, however, two news items I wanted to mention to g...

Katy says: As I begin reading today's newspapers, I see that the New York Times has a couple of recent articles on Venezuela. One is a f...

Katy says : The singer of the reggaeton-du-jour Yasuri Yamileth (aka Panamanian songstress Catherine Severino, not the girl in the video b...

Katy says: I am going to ask Quico's loyal readers for a favor in an experiment I have in mind. Any time you see a pro-Chávez sign in a...

"No es la espada de Bolívar, es la chequera de Venezuela la que camina por América Latina." Manuel Rosales, upon announcing his ca...

Katy says: I was driving in traffic today when, on the radio, people were talking about a speech OAS Secretary-General José Miguel Insulza ...

Katy says: The latest round in the dispute between Venezuelan blogger Alek Boyd and London mayor Ken Livingstone is not to be missed .

Katy says: Here is a nice little picture I got today. It is from some sort of PDVSA office, and the slogan reads "toward 10 million...

Katy says: Influential British magazine The Economist (registration required) has a very interesting article on national oil companies and ...

Katy says: Venezuelans woke up Sunday to the news that jailed union leader Carlos Ortega had fled Ramo Verde military prison along with thr...

Katy says: As everyone knows, Chávez went to Cuba to visit Fidel Castro, courtesy of Venezuelan taxpayers. Here's a question to test yo...

Katy says: Venezuela has just announced that it will not participate as the guest of honor in the La Paz Book Fair. Our country's repre...

Katy says: Wednesday, August 1, 3:50 AM: Former CNE President and chavista figure, Jorge Rodríguez, goes to Clínica El Ávila (one of Venezu...

Katy says: Manuel Rosales, two-term governor of the state of Zulia, in Western Venezuela, has just been confirmed as the single presidenti...

Katy says: Nicolás Maduro is apparently going to be named Foreign Secretary . Comments thread is now open...

From the road, Quico says: I don't know that much about Manuel Rosales - in itself a bad sign, given what a political junkie I am - bu...

Katy says: Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales is in a bind. He is mulling whether to be or not to be the opposition's main presidential cand...

Katy says: Loyal reader and fellow blogger Bruni (I assume those are her eyes at left) has a great post today regarding the accuracy of fing...

Katy says: Did you know that, according to Prof. Marino González of Simón Bolívar University, the total spending on weapons Chávez has anno...

Katy says: Several things from the news this morning that are worth commenting. 1. If it's bad to be rich, Jorge Rodríguez is one baaaa...

In the last salvo in our Opinion Duel on Benjamin Rausseo, Quico says that Katy makes her case as if chavismo had never happened. The Duel i...

Katy says: Fidel Castro is undergoing intestinal surgery and has handed over power to his brother.

... has begun. Katy says Quico is just another desperate blogger. Stay tuned for Quico's response.

It has started. Katy wrote there is no spoon for her in this sancocho. Quico replies that Katy is giving a gift horse a root canal...

Alright, Katy - if that is indeed your real name - things have gone far enough. I shall suffer your Guacharophobia in silence no more. The...

The Guachinton Pos picks up an AP story about Rausseo... "He's ugly, I'm ugly ... I talk, he talks. But the difference is I l...

Ask yourself this: what drives people's voting in the TV age? Is it experience? "Preparation"? A government program? Ideology?...

...or: method to the madness. As Condemania grips the nation, the question looms ever larger: who exactly is behind Benjamín Rausseo? Frank...

Well, it had to come to this: Benjamín Rausseo, much better known as El Conde del Guacharo, has launched his presidential bid. It's a bi...

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