Quico says: What follows is cut-and-pasted from a recent Skype chat: Katy 6:25 PM: ¿estas? Quico 6:25 PM: epa, sí, recien regresado Katy ...

Katy says: - In today's class, we will discuss current events in oil markets. - China raised fuel taxes by as much as 18 percent. Mark...

Katy says: - Interior Minister Ramón Rodríguez Chacín committed one of the biggest blunders I have seen recently, when he said that most mu...

Katy says: - This is the second post in a series on the proposals of Venezuela’s opposition political parties. The first part (on oil polic...

Katy says: - Lucía sends me this link to the latest New Yorker piece on Chávez, written by the legendary Jon Lee Anderson . What a disappo...

Quico says: I'm sorry to stay stuck on the Intelligence Decree-Law fiasco, but the more I think about it the more I see it as the embo...

Katy says: - The past week saw a heavily-promoted presidential address that was supposed to contain the details of a stimulous package to ...

Quico says: So National Assembly deputy Pedro Ortega thinks (and I use the word "think" loosely here) that responsibility for th...

Quico says: What does it take to 'make it big' in this society? What do the most ambitious people here feel they need to do to ...

Quico says: Time was when he'd look genuinely upset that he'd lost his cool and raised his hand against you. He'd show up all s...

Katy says: - Venezuela's "Moral Power" asked today for two Supreme Court Justices to be impeached and fired from the Court. ...

Katy says: This is the first of a series of wonkish posts on the specific proposals of Venezuela's opposition political parties. We sta...

Quico says: It's a measure of the lunacy that saturates Venezuelan public life that a totally vanilla headline like "Leader urg...

Quico says: One of the little pleasures of life in revolutionary times is watching the utter discombobulation of chavista hackdom whenever ...

Quico says: In some quarters it's gotten trendy to compare Chávez's new Intelligence Decree-Law to the Patriot Act. But as this E...

Quico says: Dear U.S. Voter, Now that you have a clear choice between just two candidates in November, many of you will be asking, "yea...

Quico says: From Simón Romero's troubling New York Times piece on Chávez's new intelligence decree-law: One part of the law, which ...

Quico says: I thought I should weigh in on the developing net-spat over opposition party bashing. It's a sin I've been guilty of t...

Katy says: - Father Luis Ugalde, SJ, president of my alma mater , is a towering figure in Venezuelan academia. His life experience working ...

Quico says: Considering my Ph.D. work has nothing at all to do with Venezuela, it's slightly disconcerting that my first academic publi...

Katy says: - I've avoided posting about the opposition lately. We are approaching the moment when we will see if the bone of grand stat...

Quico says: The guy came through in just a couple of weeks.

Obama says: Take the slider to 16:53. We will fully support Colombia's fight against the FARC. We'll work with the government to en...

Katy says: - My new favorite website . Sorry to those who don't speak Spanish - its content is both hilarious and untranslateable. Than...

Katy says: - I have the utmost respect for physical therapists. They are hard-working professionals who deserve to be compensated for their...

Quico says: A few days ago, Katy posted a link to this Rory Carroll piece in The Guardian, to mixed reactions. Personally, I thought it wa...