Rafael Caldera, still alive
Juan Cristóbal says: – Sometimes, bloggers make mistakes. I got a Twitter feed from a friend saying that Rafael Caldera, former President of Venezuela, had passed away. I...
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Blood in Tegucigalpa
Quico says: It’s hard to know where to start to pick apart yesterday’s extraordinary air-borne telenovela over Tegucigalpa, but it’s only right to start with Isis Murillo: the...
Tegucigalpa Chronicles
Quico says: Folks, I’m sorry this blog has gone Honduras-crazy over the last few days. No era para menos. I’ll return to blogging to stuff I know something...
Hugui Go Home
Quico says: Here’s a question worth pondering: how come Roberto Micheletti woke up this morning in the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa instead of across the hall from Carmona...
The wolf decries the plight of the sheep
Juan Cristóbal says: -As I write this, the deposed President of Honduras is giving a speech to the UN. As I write this, all TV and radio stations...
Grand Theft Opinion
Quico says: So I wrote up a thing on the Honduran mess over at The New Republic’s mass blog, The Plank. A taste: If anything, the hemisphere’s unanimous,...
Two faces of Hugo Chávez
Juan Cristóbal says: – Hugo Chávez on last week’s events in Iran: “The Bolivarian government of Venezuela expresses its firm rejection of the ferocious and unfounded campaign to...
The Trouble with Mass Expropriations...
Quico says: …is that, these days, the world just isn’t set up for that way of doing things. Take the Eastern Shore of Lake Maracaibo oil service company...
Bugbear to All
Quico says: It’s remarkable to realize how much of the political life of Venezuela these days is about Globovision: an influence entirely out of proportion to the station’s...
¿Qué pasaría en Venezuela si no existiera El Chigüire Bipolar?
Quico says: “Indispensable” is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot. But this story demonstrates why El Chigüire Bipolar has become genuinely indispensable in Venezuela....
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