June 28, 2008

sorry

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Quico says: Previous post withdrawn due to devastating criticism.
June 26, 2008

Shocker of the day: Politician plays by the rules

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Juan Cristobal says: - The fight to be the sole opposition candidate for Mayor of Maracaibo has been a tawdry affair. Primero Justicia'...
June 25, 2008

The fjords of Macuro

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Juan Cristobal says: - The most developed nation on Earth . The most peaceful country on Earth . Insanely high life expectancy . The second...
June 24, 2008

Not that there's anything wrong with that

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Quico says: I've been feeling particularly ineffective when it comes to blogging November's state and local elections. Aside from t...
June 23, 2008

Extra! Extra! Nickname Felon Starts Making Sense!

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Quico says: It pains me to say it - and not just because the bastard usurped my nickname and, worse yet, misspells it - but Kico Bautista...
June 21, 2008

The crying game

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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 ...
June 19, 2008

Oil Economics 101

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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...

Blunder of the week

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Katy says: - Interior Minister Ramón Rodríguez Chacín committed one of the biggest blunders I have seen recently, when he said that most mu...
June 17, 2008

What Primero Justicia wants, Part II: The justice system

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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...

The tired revolution

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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...
June 16, 2008

The Secret Parliament

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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...
June 14, 2008

A big pile o' nothin'

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

Great Moments in Implausible Deniability

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Quico says: So National Assembly deputy Pedro Ortega thinks (and I use the word "think" loosely here) that responsibility for th...
June 13, 2008

The Making of the New Elite

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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 ...
June 11, 2008

Charm offensive, cash in hand

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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...

A white rose by any other name

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Katy says: - Venezuela's "Moral Power" asked today for two Supreme Court Justices to be impeached and fired from the Court. ...
June 10, 2008

What Primero Justicia Wants, Part I: Oil and energy

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Katy says: This is the first of a series of wonkish posts on the specific proposals of Venezuela's opposition political parties. We sta...
June 9, 2008

Quadruple U-Turn. With two backflips. And a watermelon on top.

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Quico says: It's a measure of the lunacy that saturates Venezuelan public life that a totally vanilla headline like "Leader urg...
June 7, 2008

Chávez Decree-Law Too Chavista for Chávez (but not for chavista hacks)

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

Triple Patriot Act. With a backflip. And a cherry on top.

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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...
June 5, 2008

The US election as though Venezuela mattered

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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...