Memo To: President-elect Barack Obama From: Francisco Toro and Juan Cristobal Nagel Date: November 7th, 2008 Subject: How to prudently engag...

Quico says: From the New York Times' politics blog: CARACAS, Venezuela | By Simon Romero The sputtering bus inched its way up the st...

Quico says: November 4th, 2008, will forever be remembered as a turning point in the history of the United States of America. For on this d...

Quico says: It has come to this. Apparently, the latest good gone AWOL from Venezuelan store shelves is...wait for it... coffee! Scarcity h...

Quico says: Franklin Durán, see ya in 15 years...

Quico says: Between the first half of 2003 and the first half of this year, Venezuelan imports rose 322%! Over that period, imports grew ne...

Quico says: That's it. I officially no longer understand anything that happens in Venezuela anymore. This week, Chávez moved to nation...

ABN: Venezuela and Cuba Exchange Animals.

Quico says: One nice thing about living in Holland is that I'm close enough to England to pick up the BBC's radio and TV broadcasts...

Quico says: The government could barely contain its collective orgasm today over the launch of "the first Venezuelan satellite."...

Quico says: The revolution's Woody Allenesque extremes of paranoia reached a weird zenith last week with this story about the three ...

Quico says: That's the proportion of Venezuelan voters who still like Hugo Chávez. Datanalisis dixit. Granted, just 35% have confidence...

"There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now ...

Juan Cristobal says: - Let's play psychic. With oil tanking and the world veering on recession, things are not looking good for Venezue...

Juan Cristobal says: - The President talks a lot of bunk, but sometimes, the stuff he says is really meaningful. Like yesterday , when he s...

Quico says: A few nights ago I was blown away by Florian von Donnersmarck's brilliant 2006 film, The Lives of Others. In a quiet, met...

Juan Cristobal says: Sometimes, when I’m bored, I like to indulge in a bit of political S&M and lurk in the opposition comment boards o...

Quico says: Y ahora, ¿quién podrá defendernos?

Quico says: When even a bastion of the Upper West Side intelligentsia such as The New York Review of Books decides to run with the Human ...

Quico says: For a country where the standard of political commentary is, erm, not always what one might hope for, Venezuela sure produces a...

Quico says: When the historians of the future come to write the history of the Chávez era, no part of the whole dadaist zarzuela will strik...

Quico says: Primero Justicia's candidate in Petare, Carlos Ocariz, has finally put a snappy tag on a thought all of us have had at one...

Quico says: So I've just set up AddThis : a one-button gateway to any number of social bookmarking services. I'm impressed! This t...

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