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Quico says: First things first: under current geostrategic realities, the notion that the US could mount an invasion of Venezuela (or Ecuad...

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Juan Cristóbal says: - As you probably know, the recent controversy surrounding Venezuela and Colombia has to do with an agreement allowing...

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Quico says: Everyone knows that the Big Crisis affecting Venezuelan journalism is that the news business just doesn't gel with a govern...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Hugo Chávez gave an off-limits-to-the-locals press conference today . In it, he went in depth about the AT-4 missile...

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Juan Cristóbal says: - Former Constitutional Assembly member and former Ambassador to Mexico Vladimir Villegas wrote a stinging op-ed piece...

Quico says: Can you believe that the revelation that Venezuelan army AT4 rocket launchers were found in FARC's possession is less than ...

Quico says: A group of some 35 pro-Chávez thugs, have just stormed Globovisión and tossed multiple tear gas canisters into the building. Th...

Juan Cristóbal says: -The government's takeover of 34 radio stations over the weekend has gained considerable attention . In spite of t...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Over the weekend, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos opined that the freedom of expression situation in...

George Orwell might have said: In our country, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the ab...

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Quico says: Simón Romero's NYTimes story today detailing new evidence of Venezuela's continued, close cooperation with FARC will ...

Quico says: El Chigüire Bipolar long ago cemented its position as the place for the most incisive, wicked and hilarious satire in Venezue...

Quico says: Read my little paean to Hillary Clinton for her role in the Honduran crisis over on TNR's mass blog, The Plank.

Juan Cristóbal says: - Remember the idea of opposition primaries ? Now there's a Facebook group promoting it . It's never too early...

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Quico says: So, guess who is the first chicharrón to go public with enthusiastic support for Luisa Ortega Díaz's fascist little aberrat...

Quico says: And now for something completely different: The New York Times reports that Honduras' de facto president Roberto Michele...

Juan Cristóbal and Quico say: What would you say is the opposite of human rights? These days, in international usage, the defense of human...

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Quico says: The Case of the Swedish Bazookas makes it clear that something very odd is happening in the bonkers-at-the-best-of-times world...

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Juan Cristóbal says: - The Governor of Lara, Henry Falcón (PSUV), went out onto the streets of Barquisimeto the other day, got on a steam-r...

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Quico says: Last week's revelation that high tech Swedish anti-tank missiles have been seeping across the border from the Venezuelan m...

Quico says: A version of my rant from this morning is now over on The New Republic's mass blog, The Plank. Check it out.

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Quico says: It was hard, this weekend, seeing those images of Hugo Chávez celebrating the tenth anniversary of the 1999 Constituent Assembl...

Quico and Juan Cristóbal say: As we cross the proverbial finish line by posting our 100th post of the week, here are a few things we learne...

Quico says: Anybody remember Noticiero Digital? In its time, it was genuinely pathbreaking: the first site that made Venezuelans stop and ...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Here you have it, in his own words . A preposterous idea if I've ever heard one, but one Chávez used to justify ...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Post 97 of 100 ... this makes me all verklempt...

Quico says: Credit where credit is due: in the overcrowded field of snivelling pro-Chávez sycophants and propagandists, nobody does it bett...

Quico says: This is a girl in a bikini. I could come up with some kind of justification for what she's doing on my blog, but that would...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Ever notice how every single freakin' holiday in Venezuela is an excuse for a military parade ? Simón Bolívar’s ...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Spike Lee is in Caracas today , speaking at the Cinemateca Nacional. Wonder what he'll have to say... Post 93 of...

Juan Cristóbal says: - As we close our final day of the Sullivan challenge, one of the interesting things this experience has brought home ...

Juan Cristóbal says: - One of the most frustrating aspects of watching the (in)action of the Venezuelan opposition is that nobody seems to ...

Quico says: On big B's birthday, I'll share this bit from page 50 of John Lynch's biography , where he describes Bolívar'...

Singapore - 12:55 p.m. Post 89 of 100. Don't want to lean on the VFYW thing too heavily, but...

Quico says: As far as pro-Micheletti agi-prop goes, this video puts the golpista case as well as such a thing can be put: Trouble is, close...