(...a cesspool or a sewer?) Quico says: This editorial in The New Republic brings me around to a theme you've seen here before: the ee...

Quico says: I apologize for the hiatus on CC . Truth is, I can find nothing to post about. I thought about writing a suitably alarmed post a...

Quico says: A consensus of sorts seems to be emerging to explain the sudden move against the Supreme Tribunal's Constitutional Chamber...

Quico says: I’ve been finding it more and more difficult to write about Venezuela without sounding either alarmist or flippant, (or even wor...

Quico says: For the last several years, Supreme Tribunal Magistrate Jesús Eduardo Cabrera has been Venezuela's leading purveyor of tortu...

Quico says: The sign reads: The President and the Mayor CAME THROUGH Construction of the new building for the Pérez de León Hospital and Mot...

Quico says: A few of you have written in with questions about monetary reform. Here's my attempt to clear things up: First off, the prac...

Quico says: Caracas Chronicles on Noticiero Digital is here . Chigüire on your dinner plate is here .

Katy says: Maria Campos came to Venezuela from her native Colombia 33 years ago, looking for a better life. She had three Venezuelan childre...

Quico says: It's a worrying and under-reported trend: protesting in public is increasingly liable to land you in jail in Venezuela. PROV...

Quico says: Simón Romero hangs this whole long NYTimes story about monetary reform on the 12.5 cent bit. Seems to me he knows full well t...

Quico says: So Barb Walters' drooling interview with Chávez pretty much blows a hole in my earlier, only-cranks-take- Chávez-seriously-...

Quico says: I went to see The Last King of Scotland the other day and frankly I didn't much like it. I thought the script was poor an...

Quico says: It's true, now Caracas Chronicles is on Noticiero Digital.

Quico says: So Chávez has wound up his Bushwhacking Tour 2007, to the general delight of the kind of people who generally delight in that s...

Quico says: Say a long history of devaluations, interest rate swings and double digit inflation has left people skeptical that your currency...

Quico says: An old and dear friend writes in from Washington: Hey, um, sorry your country's officially crossed the line into People'...

Quico says: I never thought I'd see the day. The three most significant pro-government parties other than Chávez's own (Podemos, PP...

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Quico says: We've been hearing a lot about this "Bono del Sur" thing. Confused? Here's how it works: Basically, the Bono ...

Quico says: Chávez yesterday on the upcoming monetary reform: Now, starting on January 1st, a dollar will not be worth two thousand one hund...

Katy says: Yesterday was the anniversary of El Caracazo , a day that no Venezuelan can ever forget. On February 27th, 1989, thousands of po...

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