Quico says: Following our Skype Interview last month, Aprileleventhologist extraordinaire Brian Nelson kindly agreed to answer some of y...

Juan Cristobal says: - In recent days, Hugo Chavez named former Finance Minister Nelson Merentes to head Venezuela's Central Bank. The...

Now also on Huffo. Quico says: Some events are so momentous, so history shaking, all you need to refer to them is a date. 911 is, I suppose...

Quico says: I do realize there's one fairly basic problem with the "hero" theory of Venezuelan redemption: it relies, ultimat...

Quico says: Juan Forero's report for the Washington Post on the growing crackdown against the opposition paints a dismal picture of th...

Quico says: I've just realized for the last who-knows-how-long, the little sign-up form on the right for Email delivery hadn't been...

Quico says: How can it be that the government only prosecutes corruption cases when the accused are Chávez opponents? It drives me batty. N...

Quico says: No, I can't believe I'm writing this either, but we need to face up: Caracas's embattled mayor, Antonio Ledezma is ...

Quico says: ...wants to know what Venezuelans thought of The Handshake.

Juan Cristobal says: - This weekend's rapprochement between the U.S. and Venezuela is, without a doubt, good news. We have long argued ...

Quico says: Yes, it's the course of action I explicitly recommended a few months ago . Yes, my brain knows this is the smart thing. Sti...

Quico says: Chavismo, as the saying goes, is "more-of-the-same, only worse". It's one my favorite tropes on the Chávez era. W...

Juan Cristobal says: - First came Columbus. Now ... Gallegos! El Universal is reporting that the bust of Rómulo Gallegos , first Venezuela...

Juan Cristobal says: Freedom of expression. The right to elect officials. The right to a fair trial. Freedom of religion. Those all sound s...

Quico says: Click here for the Second Part of my interview with Brian Nelson, author of The Silence and The Scorpion: The Coup Against Chá...

Listen to my interview with Brian Nelson, author of The Silence and The Scorpion, here. Quico says: Seven years on, the events of April 11...

Juan Cristobal says: - The autocratic ruler of a petro-state has just been re-elected President for an unprecedented third term after Parl...

Juan Cristobal says: - That headline is ridiculous, isn't it? Chavez is perhaps the most powerful man in the history of our nation, mor...

Juan Cristobal says: - The BBC has a video on indigenous Venezuelan martial arts . They don't mention the government, but surely this i...

Quico says: I'm always amazed by the kinds of debates that ensue when somebody in the anti-Chavez camp strays from oppo groupthink and...

Quico says: If you read this blog regularly, you know how the loose use of terms like "totalitarian" , "dictator", ...

Quico says: So squeaky clean that, after what was doubtlessly a detailed investigation into anything and everything the guy's been up t...

Quico says: Nobody could be surprised by Chávez's decision to jail the man who, more than any other, saved his skin in the 2002 coup. T...

Juan Cristobal says: - Check out who Barack Obama thinks is the "most popular politician on the planet." Hint: it's not Hugo ...

Juan Cristobal says: - Today's edition of El Universal carries an interview with Planning Minister Jorge Giordani, Chavez's econom...

Juan Cristobal says: - Kudos to Alexander Cuadros of Slate. While in Caracas, he sought out the foreigners who make the Revolution their h...