Quico says: So, there's an earthquake. It wakes you up. You turn on the TV and see a report about it. What do you think is more likely ...

Quico says: Five years ago today, the court-packing Organic Statute of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice came into effect. As I've recen...

Quico says: So you want to know how a minimally responsible petrostate elite might manage the oil industry's boom-and-bust cycle? Go as...

Juan Cristobal says: - The Chávez administration has been gobbling up everything in sight at such a pace, it's actually nationalizing i...

Quico says: My guess now is that when the historians of the future come to periodize the Chávez era, they'll settle on something like: ...

Quico says: One of the great joys of blogging is when a post sets off a really good debate. The comments thread following my previous post...

There are missiles coming from every direction. In just a few weeks, it was the comisarios, the ports and airports, Rosales, Ledezma, the Mi...

Quico says: What I find most significant about Chavez's announcement that he has decided to shut down Globovision is, precisely, that ...

Quico says: Gah! I really don't have time to blog about it properly right now. But Chavez's move to seize the oil sector's priv...

Juan Cristobal says: - This from the Annals of Dadaist Dictatorship Chronicles: Two bakers in the city of Guanare, in central Venezuela, we...

Juan Cristobal says: - The government likes to boast about how it has kept the exchange rate fixed at Bs.F. 2.15 for a number of years. The...

Quico says: I really should apologize for the light posting recently. Over the last two weeks, I've been in the middle of a hideously c...

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...