Quico says: After my epic, 200 post comments-thread-cum-PSF-free-for-all over on the Guardian's Comment is Free site, I think I'v...

Juan Cristobal says: - Something very strange happened today. As far as we know, for the first time in five years , Chavez spoke with a mem...

Quico says: Following on from yesterday's ground breaking revelations, I see this in the INCES website: Now that is a classic! Sadly...

Quico says: Folks, I'm afraid the gig is up. They found us out. Somehow, our secret plot with the gringos over the referendum got leak...

Quico says: How level is the electoral playing field in Venezuela these days? So level that the chavista-run National Elections Council act...

Quico says: So we've all heard it again and again and then again some more: getting rid of term limits is not the same thing as ...

Quico says: I've been trying to think up the right words to describe the Opera Buffa surrounding Miranda State Governor Henrique Capril...

Quico says: Check out my Battle Royale with VIC (Britain's VIO equivalent) chavista extraordinaire Redmond O'Neill on The Guardi...

Quico says: It's too bad this stunning article by Phil Gunson for the Miami Herald got buried in the week between Christmas and New Y...

Quico says: As of today , Hugo Chávez has been president of Venezuela for exactly as long as Rafael Caldera was. Believe it, baby.

Quico says: An impeccable source writes in to say that Datos is not planning to make its polling public this cycle. They are polling, howe...

Quico says: You asked for it, you got it: Click to expand A few things to note: IVAD is more and more "the government pollster." A...

Quico says: One vital question that's getting virtually no attention is what the correct policy response would be to the economic crisi...

Quico says: This Dow Jones wire story, by-lined Raúl Gallegos, makes for compelling reading. The entire thing is really quite stunning, bu...

...where even the bagres are climbers.

Quico says: The Parable of the Leaves is up on Huffo. Take a minute to write a comment over there, would you?

Quico says: The US Department of Energy's well regarded Energy Information Administration has just put out its latest Country Analysis ...

Juan Cristobal says: - Excerpts from some email conversations I had yesterday. --------------- From: Juan Cristobal To: My friend Roger , r...

Juan Cristobal says: Imagine you're working to get someone elected and you run into an undecided voter in an elevator. You have thirty...

Quico says: I haven't been writing much about the upcoming referendum on abolishing term limits, for a couple of reasons. The whole th...

[coming soon on Huffo... ] Quico says: Talk about Venezuela these days and people assume the argument splits neatly between two camps: nut...

Quico says: If I told you that, in the wake of a sham referendum aimed at keeping the president in power forever, Venezuelans of all kind...

Quico says: A couple of readers have pointed me to this remarkable Information Ministry press release, which one of them surmises must be...

Obama says: "To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West — know that you...

Quico says: Yesterday's post was one I'd been meaning to get off my chest for a long time. It felt good to put it out there. Still...