October 10, 2008

The audacity of ignorance

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Juan Cristobal says: The Chávez's administration has a long and distinguished record of pulling the most obscure ñángaras from the gut...

50 Ways to Imprison Your Opponents Without Convicting Them

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Quico says: This is one of those tidbits that just beggars all belief: the trial of one-time Caracas security officials Lazaro Forero, Ivan...
October 9, 2008

My country went Marxist and all I got was this lousy fiscal planning system

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Quico says: I'll tell you what gets me about Chávez's reaction to the Great Financial Freakout of 2008. As the world faces a protra...
October 8, 2008

Chavez versus the people

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Juan Cristobal says: - In the movie The War of the Roses , Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner play a succesful, picture-perfect couple. Th...

I know it's true because I read it in the newspaper...

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Quico says: Hey, it turns out this blog shows "both a political balance that can be refreshing in these polarized times and a mischiev...
October 7, 2008

Devious Injuns

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Quico says: In today's NYTimes, Simón Romero goes to the Amazon and finds the stereotype of the lazy, devious indian alive and well at...
October 6, 2008

When sovereignty dissolves with a whimper, not a bang

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Quico says: Walter Lippmann once said that "there is no greater necessity for men who live in communities than that they be governed, ...
October 3, 2008

The Suicidal Dream of Becoming an Immense Parasite that Feeds off of our Oil

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Esta gran proporción de riqueza de origen destructivo crecerá sin duda alguna el día en que los impuestos mineros se hagan más justos y remu...
October 1, 2008

Taking judicial activism to a whole new level

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Juan Cristobal says: - President Chávez today inaugurated a meeting of Presidents of Supreme Courts of South American nations. In his addr...
September 30, 2008

One Simple Thesis on the Theme of Magnicide

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Quico says: Juan Manuel Santos , Marta Colomina, Leopoldo Castillo , Heinz Sontagg , Miguel Henrique Otero , Nelson Mezerhane , Marcel Gran...
September 29, 2008

Someone needs to get a grip

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Juan Cristobal says: - Quico and I were talking today about running a "whatever happened to?" You know, as in whatever happened t...
September 28, 2008

Residual memories

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Quico says: I'm a bit late to this story, but didn't want to let it pass without a comment. About a week ago, Luisa Ortega Díaz , C...
September 25, 2008

The emerald city

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Juan Cristobal says: - One of the biggest challenges in writing this blog is bridging the disconnect between our perception of Venezuelan p...

Chávez : Bush :: Peas : Pod

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Quico says: Oh Hugo, if only you knew how right you have it. [hat tip: dorothy]
September 23, 2008

Plato and the paranoia of power

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Quico says: In a previous post, I started citing great big chunks of Plato's republic . Strange as it seems, it isn't just some gra...
September 22, 2008

Chavismo Foretold

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Quico says: We tend to think of chavismo as shiny and new: all 21st Century and postmodern. But the basic mechanism whereby democracy gradu...
September 21, 2008

Gustavo MarWHO?!

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Quico says: State-level polls are likely to be thin on the ground over the next few weeks, and published polls even thinner. So I'll ju...
September 19, 2008

It's official

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Quico says: Hugo Chávez is now fodder for Republican attack ads... [Have yer damn hat tip, JayDee...]

Quod erat demonstrandum

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Juan Cristobal and Quico say: Sometimes, chavismo takes all the fun out of parody by, in effect, parodying itself. Case in point: Human Rig...

The apple that fell a couple of time zones over from the tree

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Quico says: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait! The kid who runs El Chigüire Bipolar is Alberto Federico Ravell's son?! HUH?!
September 17, 2008

Northern populist

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Juan Cristobal says: - A scenery-chewing political reformer. A bible-thumping banner of books. A pitbull with lipstick. The political heire...

My Dinner with Guido

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Quico says: So, much as I'd vowed to avoid it, I find myself getting inexorably sucked into the Maletagate Maelstrom . Too much good st...
September 16, 2008

Chavismo: Guaranteeing total impunity since 1999

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Quico says: It seems like ages ago (and it was), but I remember it vividly. Back in those first few months of '99, I genuinely was on t...