War games
Juan Cristóbal says: – Once in a while, Quico and I get emails from readers in Colombia asking about Hugo Chávez’s latest antics vis-a-vis their government. Since yesterday...
Life
The view from your window: Chicago
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The expected begins to happen
Juan Cristóbal says: – Courageous Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez was briefly kidnapped from the streets of Havana by unidentified thugs and beaten. Her harrowing account is here, in...
Owning up to one's bad calls
Juan Cristóbal says: – Barely a week after we were declaring the Honduras crisis all but over, we get news the agreement has collapsed. Not only that, a...
Game Over
Quico says: Over on BoingBoing, loyal reader and one-time avid gamer Guido Nuñez Mujica has this lovely, meaty rant on the government’s just approved ban on video games...
The view from your window: Asunción
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Loser boasts of taking from winner
Juan Cristóbal says: – This video, secretly taped, shows the loser in last year’s election for Caracas Metropolitan Mayor, chavista Aristóbulo Istúriz, explaining the raison d’etre and the...
The view from your window: Addis Ababa
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The Huffington Post ...
Juan Cristóbal says: – … discusses harassment of gays and lesbians at the hands of Venezuelan government goons. Check it out – I wonder what Sean Penn thinks...
BCVSA and The Exchange Rate that Must Not Be Named
Quico says: Two and a half years ago, when Chávez announced PDVSA would start manufacturing shoes and selling beans and I wrote this snarky little post about the...
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