Juan Cristóbal says: - Courageous Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez was briefly kidnapped from the streets of Havana by unidentified thugs and be...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Barely a week after we were declaring the Honduras crisis all but over, we get news the agreement has collapsed . N...

Quico says: Over on BoingBoing, loyal reader and one-time avid gamer Guido Nuñez Mujica has this lovely, meaty rant on the government'...

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Juan Cristóbal says: - This video, secretly taped, shows the loser in last year's election for Caracas Metropolitan Mayor, chavista Ari...

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Juan Cristóbal says: - ... discusses harassment of gays and lesbians at the hands of Venezuelan government goons. Check it out - I wonder ...

Quico says: Two and a half years ago, when Chávez announced PDVSA would start manufacturing shoes and selling beans and I wrote this snarky...

The North Korean State (what other kind is there?) News Agency says: National Seminar on Juche Idea Held in Venezuela Pyongyang, Nove...

Juan Cristóbal says: - The border is closed . Two National Guardsmen were murdered . Nine Colombians were murdered last week . What's g...

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Juan Cristóbal says: Why does it cost 39% more than average for a Spanish company to build a power plant in Cumaná than anywhere else in th...

Quico says: I dare you to click on this and not laugh. Go on, click . You laughed, didn't you? Oh sure, a second later you caught your...

A longer version of this post appears on The New Republic's blog, The Plank. Juan Cristóbal and Quico say: The Honduran tragicomedy tha...

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Juan Cristóbal says: - Venezuela is in the grips of an unprecedented electricity crisis, and much of it has to do with festering corruption...

Quico says: I was about to send this as an email to an editor who asked me to write something about Chávez's hypertrophied presidential...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Hugo Chávez's administration introduced a draft 2010 budget a few days ago. The project promises a whopping $84...

Quico says: As Chávez takes to blaming more and more of the nation's problems on you, the latest Datanalisis poll confirms it: 23.9% ...

Quico says: Hernando de Soto's conception of "dead capital" is one of the genuinely intriguing ideas spawned by the developm...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Not content with issuing debt to finance capital flight , as they did a few weeks ago, the Chávez administration rec...

Juan Cristóbal says: - The well-deserved, near-universal praise heaped on Venezuela's Youth Orchestra Program ("El Sistema")...

Juan Cristóbal says: - The two short videos are fascinating. In a few short minutes, you can see Chávez the deranged (hiring "planes...

Quico says: Chavismo has surely entered its churrigueresque period when the government decrees a gas station as a protected historical sit...

Quico says: Read this and tell me Eva Golinger hasn't lost her marbles completely. I can't even piece together what the specific o...

Quico says: OK, I admit it: I haven't been posting very much recently cuz I've been...gasp... two-timin' this blog! The shame! ...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Loyal reader Kepler has a post on his blog about Amazonas state . It's well worth a read, if anything for the li...

Quico says: For the longest time, the conventional wisdom was that it would be senseless for Iran to seek uranium supplies outside its own...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Blogger extraordinaire Yoani Sanchez fights for her rights. In Spanish only...

Juan Cristóbal says: (With my apologies to Teodoro-groupie Quico, but that headline wrote itself.) In today's Tal Cual, Teodoro Petkoff ...

Juan Cristóbal says: As the government's authoritarian noose tightens, and next year's Legislative elections draw ever nearer with ...

Quico says: In the Guardian today, Rory Carroll manages the impossible: getting a major first world paper to buckle down and give detailed ...

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Quico says: So, in this era of participatory and protagonic democracy , what would happen to you if you flat out refused to discuss a labor...

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Quico says: There's one thing monetary authorities need more than anything else: credibility. When a Central Bank chief commits to a po...