Simon Romero's Petare Election Night
Quico says: From the New York Times’ politics blog: CARACAS, Venezuela | By Simon Romero The sputtering bus inched its way up the streets of Petare, this city’s...
Life
A historic day for the people of the United States
Quico says: November 4th, 2008, will forever be remembered as a turning point in the history of the United States of America. For on this day, after a...
Annals of Counterproductive Propaganda
Quico says: It has come to this. Apparently, the latest good gone AWOL from Venezuelan store shelves is…wait for it…coffee! Scarcity hasn’t been this ironic since the Great...
Guilty
Quico says: Franklin Durán, see ya in 15 years…
Killer fact
Quico says: Between the first half of 2003 and the first half of this year, Venezuelan imports rose 322%! Over that period, imports grew nearly twice as fast...
Bizarro World: Petroleum Sovereignty Edition
Quico says: That’s it. I officially no longer understand anything that happens in Venezuela anymore. This week, Chávez moved to nationalize Helvesa, a company that makes pipes for...
Annals of Suggestive Headline Writing
ABN: Venezuela and Cuba Exchange Animals.
¿Qué?!
Quico says: One nice thing about living in Holland is that I’m close enough to England to pick up the BBC’s radio and TV broadcasts. It’s a balm....
Get a grip!
Quico says: The government could barely contain its collective orgasm today over the launch of “the first Venezuelan satellite.” Venezuelan?! Se fumaron una lumpia…Chinese design, Chinese engineering, Chinese...
If the electrons oppose us, we shall fight against them and force them to obey us
Quico says: The revolution’s Woody Allenesque extremes of paranoia reached a weird zenith last week with this story about the three Edelca engineers who took the rap for...
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