Extra! Extra! New York Review of Books in bed with the CIA!
Quico says: When even a bastion of the Upper West Side intelligentsia such as The New York Review of Books decides to run with the Human Rights Watch...
¡Viva Edo!
Quico says: For a country where the standard of political commentary is, erm, not always what one might hope for, Venezuela sure produces a freakish number of really...
What part of "wiped off the map" don't you understand?
Quico says: When the historians of the future come to write the history of the Chávez era, no part of the whole dadaist zarzuela will strike them as...
Jujitsuing the Populist Binge
Quico says: Primero Justicia’s candidate in Petare, Carlos Ocariz, has finally put a snappy tag on a thought all of us have had at one point or another:...
Social Bookmarking comes to Caracas Chronicles!
Quico says: So I’ve just set up AddThis: a one-button gateway to any number of social bookmarking services. I’m impressed! This thing makes sharing something you read on...
The audacity of ignorance
Juan Cristobal says: The Chávez’s administration has a long and distinguished record of pulling the most obscure ñángaras from the gutters of academia and putting them in positions...
50 Ways to Imprison Your Opponents Without Convicting Them
Quico says: This is one of those tidbits that just beggars all belief: the trial of one-time Caracas security officials Lazaro Forero, Ivan Simonovis and Henry Vivas has...
My country went Marxist and all I got was this lousy fiscal planning system
Quico says: I’ll tell you what gets me about Chávez’s reaction to the Great Financial Freakout of 2008. As the world faces a protracted recession, our supposedly Marxist...
Chavez versus the people
Juan Cristobal says: – In the movie The War of the Roses, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner play a succesful, picture-perfect couple. The years go by, the tensions...
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