Katy says: - A day after the Interpol report on Raul Reyes' laptops and President Chávez's predictably Orwellian reaction , it...

Katy says: - Well, Interpol confirmed what everyone already knew: that the three laptops, three USB drives and two portable hard drives th...

Katy says: - The US, the Constitutional Reform, the FARC, Fidel - these are some of Chávez's well-known obsessions. His latest one is N...

Quico says: Seriously, these people are nuts.

Quico says: What would it take to get Mark Weisbrot, Larry Birns & co. genuinely cheesed off at the Venezuelan government? Would docume...

Quico says: I'd been planning to wait until Thursday's Interpol report on the authenticity of the Reyes laptops to join this part...

Quico says: In the latest Letras Libres (in Spanish), Alberto Barrera Tyszka and Ibsen Martínez sit down for a long chat with old man Petko...

Quico says: Hats off to José de Córdoba and Jay Solomon: their front-page investigative piece on the real extent of the Chávez-FARC nexus ...

Quico says: There's a desperate, clawing pathos to it: the painfully fake debate Chávez made the A.N. hold over "Zulia secession...

Quico says: So speaking to reporters the other day, Planning Minister Haiman "Orwelito" El Troudi accepted that the last few roun...

Quico says: After a morning wasted fiddling around with the blog's software, I've now upgraded to one of Google's new style Blo...

Quico says: Joy was uncontained in Venezuela today as the government announced that, thanks to the millions of dollars it has invested in t...

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...