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...
Life
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...
Joaquín Villalobos and the Legacy of the Honduran Crisis
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...
Stuff everyone knows, but nobody's allowed to say...
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...
Fiscal Crisis Watch
Quico says: Still don’t think the government’s having trouble paying its bills? Check this out:
Caption Competition
Quico says: Do your worst…
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