A Sprawling Cultural Desert
Quico says: So in my desperate scramble to rustle up enough material for 100 posts in five days, I’ve started reading stuff I don’t usually read, including El...
Visit Beautiful Honduras!
Quico says: As of noon today, the 72 hour deadline set by the de facto government for Venezuela’s diplomatic mission to leave Honduras will expire, and our guys...
Teach us more about democratic legitimacy, Sensei!
Quico says: This week, Fidel Castro attacked Óscar Arias for failing to ensure that Honduras returns to democratically elected government fast enough. No, no, seriously: This week, Fidel...
Profeteering from the mentally ill is not nice!
Quico says: Ever notice how, every time Chávez has one of his “episodes”, some dog of war in Russia winds up several billion dollars richer? In my book,...
The View from Your Window
Ann Arbor, Michigan – 2:47 p.m. Feel like sharing the view from your window? Send a snapshot along to [email protected] Post 82 of 100. Apparently Juan Cristobal works...
Chavismo's Deep Roots
http://www.youtube.com/v/_0q-5Ls3dJQ&hl=en&fs=1& Quico says: This video speaks so powerfully to the roots of the Chávez phenomenon, it really should be required viewing to people who think chavismo just sort...
The ten years of the Constitutional Assembly
Juan Cristóbal says: – This July 25th will mark the tenth anniversary of the election where we picked the members of the Constitutional Assembly – an anniversary not...
Eavesdropping Druglord Spook Put In Charge of the Phone Company...
Quico says: So much bizarre shit happens in Venezuela on any given day that absolute belief-beggaring insanity has the easiest time just sort of slipping between the cracks....
Will Maduro be driving the bus?
Juan Cristóbal says: – Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega will apparently be accompanying Manuel Zelaya by land on his trip back to Honduras. I...
The revolution eating its has-beens
Juan Cristóbal says: – The Bolivarian Revolution has been making some strange moves regarding corruption as of late. A few weeks ago, we learned that former Finance Minister...
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