The Micheletti Budget Squeeze: Not All That
Quico says: So, the EU has cut some $92 million in budget aid to the de facto government in Honduras, citing lack of progress in the Arias-mediated negotiations....
Life
Caracas Chronicles - soon banned in Caracas?
Juan Cristóbal says: – This story by Chris Kraul of the LA Times is remarkable in that it reports on the government’s intents to crack down not just...
Los Papeles de Insulza
Quico says: Something is very weird in Latin America when the head of OAS starts sounding like an agit-prop talk show host on Venezuelan State Television. Because José...
Alfredo Maneiro Turning In His Grave
Quico says: The irony in yesterday’s thuggish repression in Guayana is bitter. When the government re-nationalized steelmaker SIDOR last year, it made a big show of renaming it...
The View from Your Window
Denver, Colorado – 10:00 a.m. Feel like sharing the view from your window? Send a snapshot along to [email protected] Post 43 of 100. Ufff…some of you read from...
Censoring the Latifundists of the Steelmill
Quico says: TalCual leads today with an even-more-stomach-turning-than-average case of censorship. Because we’re not talking about censorship against the “latifundists of the airwaves” anymore, but instead against the...
Noticias24 Knock-off Watch: NoticiasVE
Quico says: In our continuing quest to flesh out the imagination-free zone that is the world of Venezuelan Noticias24-style knock-off, we come to NoticiasVE, possibly the most egregious...
Michael Lisman on Micheletti As Liability to the De Facto Government
Quico says: As the one guy I know who’s spent a fair bit of time actually in Honduras over the last few years, the Interamerican Dialogue’s Michael Lisman...
Our rats are the biggest, pibe
Juan Cristóbal says: Read in an Argentine tourism webpage: “In the vast area where the capybara lives (which spans Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay),...
When life meets mental-health-break
Quico says: In his cadena today, Chávez dropped this bombshell: “When I was 18, I was into show business. I even MC’d a couple of beauty pageants, once...
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