The Barrage
There are missiles coming from every direction. In just a few weeks, it was the comisarios, the ports and airports, Rosales, Ledezma, the Miranda clinics, the oil service...
Life
Denying Plausible Deniability
Quico says: What I find most significant about Chavez’s announcement that he has decided to shut down Globovision is, precisely, that he announced it. Think about it: if...
Apocalypse Now
Quico says: Gah! I really don’t have time to blog about it properly right now. But Chavez’s move to seize the oil sector’s private contractors is a catastrophe...
Les Misérables
Juan Cristobal says: – This from the Annals of Dadaist Dictatorship Chronicles: Two bakers in the city of Guanare, in central Venezuela, were arraigned today. Their crime? Selling...
The fictional 2.15
Juan Cristobal says: – The government likes to boast about how it has kept the exchange rate fixed at Bs.F. 2.15 for a number of years. They make...
Apologies
Quico says: I really should apologize for the light posting recently. Over the last two weeks, I’ve been in the middle of a hideously complicated international move, not...
Everything you ever wanted to know about April 11th and weren't afraid to ask
Quico says: Following our Skype Interview last month, Aprileleventhologist extraordinaire Brian Nelson kindly agreed to answer some of your questions about his six years of research into the...
The number cruncher
Juan Cristobal says: – In recent days, Hugo Chavez named former Finance Minister Nelson Merentes to head Venezuela’s Central Bank. The move would not be chavista if it...
Thoughts on the Eve of the Fifth Anniversary of 1M
Now also on Huffo. Quico says: Some events are so momentous, so history shaking, all you need to refer to them is a date. 911 is, I suppose,...
The problem with the hero theory
Quico says: I do realize there’s one fairly basic problem with the “hero” theory of Venezuelan redemption: it relies, ultimately, on power’s sense of shame. Ghandi’s campaign, in...
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