58%
Quico says: That’s the proportion of Venezuelan voters who still like Hugo Chávez. Datanalisis dixit. Granted, just 35% have confidence he can help solve the country’s problems. But...
Life
Known unknowns
“There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we...
Putting the fun in devaluation
Juan Cristobal says: – Let’s play psychic. With oil tanking and the world veering on recession, things are not looking good for Venezuela, no matter what Chávez says....
Some nuggets are worth keeping
Juan Cristobal says: – The President talks a lot of bunk, but sometimes, the stuff he says is really meaningful. Like yesterday, when he said: “We have managed...
The chats of others
Quico says: A few nights ago I was blown away by Florian von Donnersmarck’s brilliant 2006 film, The Lives of Others. In a quiet, methodical way, the film...
The unity fetish
Juan Cristobal says: Sometimes, when I’m bored, I like to indulge in a bit of political S&M and lurk in the opposition comment boards on Noticiero Digital and...
Brent < $68/barrel
Quico says: Y ahora, ¿quién podrá defendernos?
Extra! Extra! New York Review of Books in bed with the CIA!
Quico says: When even a bastion of the Upper West Side intelligentsia such as The New York Review of Books decides to run with the Human Rights Watch...
¡Viva Edo!
Quico says: For a country where the standard of political commentary is, erm, not always what one might hope for, Venezuela sure produces a freakish number of really...
What part of "wiped off the map" don't you understand?
Quico says: When the historians of the future come to write the history of the Chávez era, no part of the whole dadaist zarzuela will strike them as...
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