Quico says: It really is a masterpiece of Ionesco-ish Latin American political lunacy: Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa responded to the video of FARC’s now top-ranking commander, Mono Jojoy,...
Quico says: Bloomberg has an excellent piece on the scale of the fiscal sink hole the government is in these days. Facing a budget deficit worth as much...
Quico says: Killer fact: 17% of all the cocaine produced in the Andes moves through Venezuela, now that the volume of coke trafficked through the country has risen...
Quico says: Mel Zelaya’s grandiloquent announcement yesterday that he intends to now lead an “insurrection” in Honduras as he walked out of the US-backed mediation effort in Costa...
Quico says: What follows over the next few days is an experiment: a shot at re-imagining what Caracas Chronicles might be like under a different, more Andrew Sullivanesque...
Quico says: As part of our mad dash to write 100 posts in five days next week, we’ve added the infamous “Read more…” button to the blog. For...
Quico and Juan Cristóbal say: So, we’ve just noticed there are now 1900 posts in this blog’s 7 year archive…now that we’re so close to the 2000 mark,...
Quico says: So over the last few days readers have been complaining, both in the comments section and over email, that we never wrote anything about Metropolitan Caracas...
Quico says: What a long, strange trip this Honduran coup has been. It takes a crisis of this magnitude to reconfigure the hemisphere’s idea of itself, to cast...
Quico says: Be sure to check out this fascinating column on the Honduran crisis by IAD’s Michael Lisman in, of all places, The Guardian: As Honduras enters its...
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