The view from my window
Montreal, Canada – 10: 44 a.m.Thanks to everyone who’s taken the time to send in pictures. I’ll be publishing them at the rate of one per day this...
Life
The socialist auction
Juan Cristóbal says: Rumors of a not-quite-overt devaluation of Venezuela’s fixed exchange rate system continue to swirl. The last few months, there have been suggestions that Cadivi, Venezuela’s...
Hey Correa, how about we ask Mono Jojoy if he'll take a polygraph?
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,...
88 billion of your bolivars, and counting...
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...
When Good Neighbors Become Good Friends
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...
Does Chávez want a proxy war in Honduras?
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...
Why on earth would you want to write 100 posts in five days?
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...
Read More about the Andrew Sullivan Blog Challenge
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...
The Andrew Sullivan Blog Challenge: 5 Days, 100 Posts, No Excuses
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,...
Why are we talking about Antonio Ledezma in the first place?
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...
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