Quico says: Well, we may not have a freedom of information act, or any kind of working oversight institutions...but, thank God, we do have ...

Quico says: There are lots of blogs and websites that bring together news content about Venezuela, but today I want to point you to my favor...

Katy says: The following is an excerpt from an article by my friend, health policy expert and USB professor Marino González . I thought it ...

Quico says: Today, it's part three of my exchange with Greg Wilpert, of Venezuelanalysis fame, about the April 2002 coup. His original ...

Dear Quico, Thanks for your thoughtful comments on my coup article and for giving me the opportunity to reply to your letter. First, indeed,...

An Open Letter to Greg Wilpert Dear Greg, I read your piece on the April Crisis with interest. While, obviously, I disagree with your overa...

"Uncritical loyalty to the USSR happens to be the current orthodoxy, and where the supposed interests of the USSR are involved they are...

Quico says: It's that time of year again, when we look back on the events of April 2002, and mourn the utter stupidity with which Pedro...

Katy says: Our apologies for the silence the last few days: I have been travelling and Quico is tied up with personal issues. This is as go...

Katy says: This article , and the book that it refers to, are not to be missed. The author explores the current oil boom in Africa, and exa...

Quico says: So, get this. "Comando Nacional de la Resistencia" spokesman Antonio Ledezma (groan) has formally asked Prosecutor Gen...

Katy says: In Venezuela, we have a popular saying: "pagan justos por pecadores", roughly "the just pay for the sins of the s...

Quico says: Phil Gunson writes a delicious bit of Chávez debunkery in Tuesday's Miami Herald. Money grafs: Venezuelan President Hugo C...

Katy says: One of the hot-button issues in Venezuela these days is the upcoming Constitutional reform that will propose lifting term limits...

Quico says: This new research, though still preliminary, is certainly eye-popping. We investigate political profiling by presenting the res...

(...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-...