Katy says: Both Quico and I are traveling. Check back here next week for more fun under the sun.

Katy says: This article by The Guardian on Chávez's tirade against the newspaper in Aló, Presidente is priceless. The dry English wit d...

Quico says: In a morbid, quasi-masochistic kind of way, it's intriguing to think through some of the bits of the 1999 constitution Cháve...

The continuation in authority of the same individual has frequently been the end of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential...

Quico says: I'm frankly disheartened by the way the debate on Constitutional Reform has gone so far. The Opposition has decided to focus...

Katy says: Article 345 of Venezuela's Constitution says: "The Constituional Reform project approved by the National Assembly will ...

Katy says: In the past few months, the Venezuelan government has dramatically increased its threats against private health-care providers, ...

Katy says: This is the Venezuelan Embassy in Peru, as it used to look: This is the same Embassy, as it currently stands: Hmmmm...why on ear...

Quico says: Sometimes, the revolution feels like one of those confused dreams you have when you eat too much before going to sleep. You know...

Quico says: Sorry, folks, but the comments' forum got too boring to read. I'm calling a general time out.

Quico says: I loved this bit, from The Economist's piece on Chávez's proposed constitutional reform. After explaining how the propo...

Katy says: Peruvian portal www.peru.com has a story about victims of Peru's deadly earthquakes receiving canned gods labeled with poli...

Katy says: I don't know Thor Halvorssen personally, and I don't believe I have ever corresponded with him. However, we're all f...

Quico says: I just gave Chávez's constitutional reform proposals a closer read and all I can say is I'm laughing my ass off. Not as...

Quico says: So I cracked pretty early on and read Chávez's constitutional reform proposal. My initial assessment stands: what we're...

Quico says: As Chávez unveils his Constitutional Reform proposal, it bears stopping to note how very far from convinced the Venezuelan elec...

Katy says : Pick up a Lonely Planet Venezuela and it'll tell you that one of the highlights of the country's Eastern shore is the s...

Quico says: Sometimes, I feel like this blog has turned into a kind of masochistic hunt for the one chavista outrage so bizarre, so over-th...

Quico says: I'm not going to write in detail about the $800,000 suitcase scandal, basically, because I haven't really followed it. ...

Quico says: Reading through the transcript of Chávez's speech in Uruguay on August the 8th - sorry, no link, I got it via email - is gen...

Chávez says: Demonize someone, demonize him and then you can justify anything. That's the empire's plan. They satanized everything,...

Quico says: One abiding irony of leftist authoritarianism is the way the self-described vanguard of the working class cannot abide working c...

Katy says: And the rhetorical about-face continues. I saw some recent polling data that shows that the only way the Constitutional reform ...

Quico says: So the Cuban government denies that it's getting Venezuelan oil for free, noting that La Isla pays for most of its oil bill...

Quico says: Here's a galling number for you. In 2006, Venezuela sent Cuba oil shipments worth $3.4 billion. Cuba doesn't seem to ...

Quico says: Sure, we didn't do so well in the PanAm Games, but in the league tables that really count, Venezuela is still on top of th...

Quico says: Sometimes, amid all the high-fallutin' talk about the rise of authoritarianism and the creeping onslaught on basic liberties...

Simón Boccanegra says: Some of the stuff that's been going down recently borders on Caribbean surrealism. The story about the Chinese ...

BBC says: Cuban athletes have made a hurried departure from the Pan-American games in Brazil, apparently amid fears of possible mass defect...

Katy says: As we eagerly await the unveiling of the Constitutional Reform that we will hopefully get a chance to vote on, it's strange ...

Quico says: So, as most people know, having gotten kicked off the public air waves, oppo broadcaster RCTV made a Freddie Kruegeresque retur...