Quico says: Chavez , Ahmadinejad & co. have made something of a hobby horse of it: Oil should be traded in Euros rather than sullied b...

Quico says: Yay!

Quico says: "No es no." Three words, six letters, short, sharp, unambiguous, devastating. The slogan is one of the most heartening...

Katy says: Recently, I came upon a story about a cost-effective alternative to expensive mass-transit systems. It's called Aerobus and...

[ Note: My usual policy is to steer well clear of non-Venezuelan subjects...we'll be stretching that rule in this post.] Quico says: Th...

Quico says: It's official: the inhabilitación binge will be matched by a PSUV purge. In a weird kind of political murder-suicide, chavi...

Katy says: When Chávez first came to power, one of the things he asked to include in the Constitution was the concept of "food securit...

Quico says: Thinking about the way the New Political Class has looted the proceeds from our current oil boom, it's hard to contain a ce...

Katy says: Just how strong is Chávez these days? The answer is not so obvious. If you judge by the opposition conventional wisdom, he's...

Chávez says: “My opinion has always been - and I still hold this - that the new National School Curriculum should not be called 'boli...

Quico says: Another guilty plea in the unending saga that is Illegally - Diverting - Venezuelan - Public - Money - to - Illegally - Fund - ...

Quico says: Turns out it's not only Venezuelans who are finding out that taking Hugo Chávez's promises at face value can be a probl...

Bloomberg says: Venezuela plans to sell $3 billion of dollar-denominated bonds to local investors, the latest move in a push to shore up th...

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Quico says: If you're looking for some mind-broadening reading this weekend, I heartily recommend this New Republic piece by Iraq War-m...

Katy says: Victor Vargas, remember him? BOD President, father-in-law to royalty , polo-playing socialist , poster boy for the Revolution o...

Quico says: People tend to think of nationalization as a black-and-white thing: either you're in the private sector or you're in the...

Katy says: How many people separate Barack Obama from Hugo Chávez? Yesterday's debate between Obama and Hillary Clinton gives us the a...

Quico thinks: Oh, man, I should write something about the Anderson case. It's getting really, really over the top, this one. I mean, ...

Katy says: "Por allí se nos fueron miles de millones de dólares el año pasado (en compras de Internet), he ordenado ajustar al vicepres...

Quico says: With sources like these, can you believe a word Newsweek says?

Quico says: In a fit of procrastination, I just checked, updated and re-organized the entire right-hand column. All the links have been chec...

Quico says: On my trip to Caracas, I picked up a copy of "Opinion Prisoner: General Usón Speaks". It's a book of interviews w...

Katy says: "Exit poll results show major defeat for Chávez" Caracas Chronicles headline , August 17th, 2004, citing a press releas...

Quico says: Turns out that Simpsons/Baywatch story has legs: ...hey, 290 editors can't all be wrong. Update: Wow. Homer vs. CJ made i...

You pimp your blog out to YouTube, of course! Today's theme is crazy stuff we saw on TV in 1998:

Weil says: I liked this image a lot in simply because it shines a spotlight on the key to understanding Venezuela's current reality: t...

Quico says: Francisco Rodríguez has become something of a force of nature in the field of Chávez scholarship. While most of us bullshit at ...

Quico says: Some bits of rampant revolutionary idiocy hit closer to home than others, and for me, few hit closer than this one: chavismo wan...