Quico says: Teodoro Petkoff has this little riff about how Venezuela's democratic roots just run too deep for an authoritarian model to...

Quico says: I wanted to make fun of this little rant, but on second thought, the thing satirizes itself: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez h...

Quico says: So within the last 48 hours, we've found out that Four years on, PDVSA still can't figure out a way to hire enough dril...

Quico says: Over the last two posts ( here and here ), I've explained why I think the Venezuelan state should distribute all of its oil...

Quico says: Yesterday's post was probably too long and convoluted, so today I'll make it as simple as I can. Everybody loves a Pow...

Quico says: Everybody knows Jesus of Nazareth wasn't from Nazareth at all: he was born in a barn in Bethlehem. But what on earth was Ma...

Quico says: It's great to run into a film about Venezuela that sets the politics to one side and focuses on the way the society actuall...

Quico says: Katy and I are both out of town for the rest of the week. See y'all Monday.

Katy says: It's a beautiful Saturday in Caracas, and I'm standing on the shoulder of the Cota Mil, because the cab I was riding in ...

Quico says: So, Finance Minister Rodrigo Cabezas finally figured out that if you prime the pump long enough, the thing just breaks. In a rar...

Quico says: I don't know what's more dismaying: the RSF note reporting that Roger Santodomingo's car blew up outside his house l...

Quico says: Megan, my co-everything on Law of the Land, and the person who really put the film together, promised to send in a post discus...

Katy says: "Our first speaker today is Dr. Eva Golinger, who will lecture us about the ills of neoliberalism." Imagine being in a...

Quico says: In case you missed it, yesterday I posted Law of the Land, a documentary about Chávez's Land Reform I made with Megan Fols...

Quico says: Loyal readers know that back in 2002 and 2003 I fancied myself a documentary film-maker. Along with my friend Megan, we made th...

Katy says: It seems like the thing everyone wants to know about is the new Vargas Viaduct. Well, it's fine, a perfectly normal, ordinar...

Quico says: As I write this, my partner-in-blog Katy is airborne and Caracas-bound, for a few days that should yield some top-grade bloggin...

Quico says: Et tu, Katy? Jumping onto the facile bandwagon of BBC bashing? Ugh. Just because an outlet doesn't sound like Martha Colomi...

Katy says: Something isn't right in the revolution when even the BBC criticizes the government. The final quote is priceless: "Bu...

Quico says: Every so often I catch myself almost thinking the government has a point: Venezuela has not been well served by its media cultu...

Katy says: Alex Beech's post on the RCTV closing represents the clearest debunking of the government's ludicrous position. It'...

Katy says: The recent awakening of Venezuela's student movement has been hailed in the media and the opposition blogosphere. For good r...

Katy says: This was interesting - Tobías Nóbrega, long considered one of the Revolution's, ahem, most "productive" figure-hea...

Katy says: A troubling news item today: chavista student Robert Serra went to the Prosecutor General's office to demand an investigatio...

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Quico says: As most of you know by now, I went to a conservative catholic elementary school in Caracas. It's a tidbit that fascinates ...

Katy says: A curious note in today's El Universal . In last weekend's presidential TV Show, Chávez used the black market rate to co...

Quico says: I sent them my Gramsci bit.

Quico says: The rural municipality of Catatumbo in southern Zulia State just had a by-election for mayor. The result? The Un Nuevo Tiempo...

Quico says: I've been fascinated by the responses to Chávez's detailed invocation of Gramsci the other day. Most of the opposition ...