Quico says: In today's WaPo, Juan Forero has the skinny on the Empire's decision to freeze all assets belonging to three top chav...

Quico says: True Venezuelan politics junkies don't need reminding to check El Chigüire Bipolar on a daily basis. But on the occassion ...

Quico says: So, according to the latest World Bank report on the cost of business regulations, guess which is the only one of the ten wor...

Quico says: The government's newfound love-in with Interpol makes for the kind of compare-and-contrast post that more or less writes i...

Quico says: One of the few rays of hope I found on my recent trip to Caracas was the rise of Canal i, the most promising of the new batch ...

Quico says: Sometimes, you have to take your hat off to the sheer audacity of chavista officialdom in full larceny mode. Say what you will ...

Quico says: One thing should be clear by now: Venezuelan party websites pretty much suck. Most of them appear to have been started up by an...

Juan Cristobal and I wish to make clear that, while we realize the recent set of posts have been about as popular as a rabbi at a Hizbollah ...

...a shocking number of "parties" have no website to speak of. Podemos , Proyecto Venezuela , Causa R, UPV (Lina Ron's vehicle...

URL: http://www.pcv-venezuela.org/ or http://www.tribuna-popular.org/ (PCV shares a website with the party's daily newspaper, Tribuna P...

URL: http://www.partidocopei.org.ve/ Updatedness: 5 out of 20. "Noticias actuales" from May. A separate "National Blog"...

URL: http://www.acciondemocratica.org.ve/ Updatedness: 2 out of 20 . "Latest news" are from April, party documents, for the most ...

URL: http://www.primerojusticia.org.ve/ Updatedness: 16 out of 20 Near-daily news updates, but too many links still send you to "Under ...

URL: http://www.ppt.org.ve/ Updatedness: 3 out of 20 . It looks like the site was pretty scrupulously maintained...until last April! Inte...

Quico says: We break from our regularly scheduled set of website reviews to bring you this bizarre, titilating, alarming, and apparently tr...

URL: http://www.unnuevotiempo.org.ve/cms/ Updatedness: 18 out of 20 . Updated almost daily, the site is definitely looked after. Interaction...

UPDATE/ WARNING : The website described below apparently contains some nasty malware . Be sure you have updated anti-virus software before c...

Quico says: From today, both Juan Cristobal and I will be out travelling: he has a business trip, I'm going to a conference. To keep th...

Quico says: In the last few weeks, Venezuelans have faced a paradox. A government that, by and large, has never allowed itself to be hemmed...

Quico says: Reading back on what I wrote yesterday, it strikes me that I'm just now grasping the actual mechanics of chavista provocati...

Quico says: What would it take to get me really, seriously alarmed about the latest uptick in chavista autocracy? This is a question many o...

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Juan Cristobal says: - The government is confiscating Venezuela’s largest cement company . Our readers are incensed. Some are wondering whe...

Juan Cristobal says: - Don't miss the latest outburst from chavista congresswoman Desireé Santos Amaral in the front steps of the Merc...

Juan Cristobal says: - Don't miss Alberto Barrera's amusing riff on Venezuela's new barter law. In Spanish only.

Quico says: OK, OK, I admit it! I funnel Venezuelan government money to Piedad Córdoba!

Quico says: Guess who Chávez blames for the South Ossetian war? You have three guesses. First two don't count.

Quico says: Want something new to be alarmed by? Check out the newly enacted anti-kidnapping law - something I'd written about before ...

Juan Cristobal says: In some opposition circles, wanting to get elected to office amid the swirl of inhabilitaciones and decree-laws almost...

Quico says: Here's a question to ponder: what really changed in Venezuela when the 26 laws of the Gacetazo were decreed into effect? W...