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 o...

Katy says: A few days ago Primero Justicia, Venezuela's third-largest political party, suffered a public split. A group led by Chacao ...

Quico says: There's something vaguely embarrassing about the whole debate about food shortages taking place in Venezuela these days. Be...

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. ...

Quico says: This Al Qaeda threat thing has thrown the Chávez government completely for a loop. This one was definitely not in their play-b...

Quico says: Imagine you are an enemy of the United States. I don't mean a rhetorical, fancy-speech giving, UN-podium hoggin', radica...

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,...

Quico says: Political common sense is a bit like atmospheric pressure - omnipresent, terrifically important, but normally imperceptible to...

Quico says: Pretty much everything you need to know about Chávez's economic model you can learn from this chart. It's an economic mo...

Quico says: Another hat tip to Miguel for pointing out this hallucinatory interview with Central Bank director Domingo Maza Zavala in yest...

Quico says: Datanalisis' January poll gives us some idea of the state of public opinion with Chávez on full steam ahead mode. The resul...

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...

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 ...

Quico says: Miguel wrote an excellent post on why inflation pressures are mounting in Venezuela. I liked it a lot, but it's a bit tech...

Quico says: First Chávez banged the name of the country, slapping his political movement's buzzword on our passports. Then he moved on ...

Quico says: Sadly Hugo has not yet presented me with the opportunity to add Nasrallah to my right hand column, but that isn't stopping ...

Quico says: Scandal is not possible in the Chávez Era. I don't mean that there's any shortage of scandalous behavior in the country ...

Quico says: It's a sad day for me: Ryszard Kapuscinski passed away in Warsaw yesterday. He was an inspiration for a generation of aspiri...

Since 2005, Venezuela has spent more on weapons than China.

Quico says: Miguel points to this lovely Chávez quote... "A President shouldn't listen to economists." A fine sentiment, no d...

Quico says: As chavista radicalism escalates, and with no institutional checks left on the guy's power, the only brakes left on the dama...

Katy says: Ever since his convincing victory at the polls last December, President Lt. Crnel. Chávez has been claiming a mandate for impleme...

Quico says: Rule by decree. There's something irreducibly brutal about the phrase, something about it that makes the flavor of authorita...