Quico says: Hats off to Tibisay Lucena. The head of the National Elections Council is more ambitious than she seems. First, she pulled off ...

Quico says: It's great fun to watch Francisco Rodríguez run an analytical bulldozer through a mountain of chavista bullshit. Choice bi...

Quico says: Newsrooms rush to tweak his obituary!

Quico says: I'm a bit late to this story, but I don't want to let it go without comment. The way Chávez justified his decision to r...

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Quico says: More than a movement, more than an ideology or a revolution or even a government, chavismo-in-power is turning into a kind of g...

Quico says: So, for the Nth time, Chávez has threatened to stop selling oil to the US. This was a non-story the last time it came around, ...

Quico says: Nobody who reads this blog regularly could mistake us for fans of Globovisión, Venezuela's 24-hour opposition news station...

Quico says: So Chávez went out to Santa Bárbara de Barinas to tour one of his revolutionary co-ops . At one point, some of the actual co-op ...

Quico says: Everybody talks about how crazy Mario Silva is. Not living in Venezuela, I don't much watch Chávez's favorite TV talk s...

Quico says: You can always tell when a news story genuinely catches the chavista propaganda machine unprepared. Terrified of publishing any...

Quico says: Exxon Mobil has obtained a series of court orders freezing up to $36 billion (no, that's not a typo) worth of PDVSA asse...

Katy says: Last night I went to see a grown-up movie for the first time in months, and it was a great one. Michael Clayton is a superior H...

Quico says: If you live in Venezuela or follow it closely, you probably won't learn anything new from Andrés Martínez's snarky litt...

Quico says: No, the two arm bands aren't quite identical. Still, exactly what message was Chávez trying to send by wearing thi...

Quico says: The anniversaries come thick-and-fast around this time of year. Sixteen years ago today, an even younger, skinnier Lieutenant ...

Quico says: Last month, Spain's El País caused a stir with this bombshell of an article on the collusion between FARC and the Venezuel...

Katy says: It's hard to fathom, but today marks the 9th anniversary of the Chávez Era. Nine years ago today Rafael Caldera (still alive...

Quico says: Technically, the Comptrollership Committee (Comisión de Contraloría) is the National Assembly's key oversight body: parliam...

Quico says: So there's this kid, Amar Bakshi, who somehow managed to persuade the Washington Post to send him all over the place to fin...

Quico says: In yesterday's FT, Benedict Mander took a stab at explaining the weird tangle of distortions exchange controls have create...

Quico says: Don't miss this eye-popping profile of Banco Occidental de Descuento head honcho and all around rancid oligarch Victor Var...

Quico says: Just recently, Javier Marías wrote this thought-provokingly quasi-reactionary little screed in The New Republic presenting a ...

Katy says: It's always a challenge to write about Venezuela from abroad. Much of what happens in the country depends on moods: the mood...