Jujitsuing the Populist Binge
Quico says: Primero Justicia’s candidate in Petare, Carlos Ocariz, has finally put a snappy tag on a thought all of us have had at one point or another:...
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Social Bookmarking comes to Caracas Chronicles!
Quico says: So I’ve just set up AddThis: a one-button gateway to any number of social bookmarking services. I’m impressed! This thing makes sharing something you read on...
The audacity of ignorance
Juan Cristobal says: The Chávez’s administration has a long and distinguished record of pulling the most obscure ñángaras from the gutters of academia and putting them in positions...
50 Ways to Imprison Your Opponents Without Convicting Them
Quico says: This is one of those tidbits that just beggars all belief: the trial of one-time Caracas security officials Lazaro Forero, Ivan Simonovis and Henry Vivas has...
My country went Marxist and all I got was this lousy fiscal planning system
Quico says: I’ll tell you what gets me about Chávez’s reaction to the Great Financial Freakout of 2008. As the world faces a protracted recession, our supposedly Marxist...
Chavez versus the people
Juan Cristobal says: – In the movie The War of the Roses, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner play a succesful, picture-perfect couple. The years go by, the tensions...
I know it's true because I read it in the newspaper...
Quico says: Hey, it turns out this blog shows “both a political balance that can be refreshing in these polarized times and a mischievous, evidently Venezuelan sense of...
Devious Injuns
Quico says: In today’s NYTimes, Simón Romero goes to the Amazon and finds the stereotype of the lazy, devious indian alive and well at the heart of chavista...
When sovereignty dissolves with a whimper, not a bang
Quico says: Walter Lippmann once said that “there is no greater necessity for men who live in communities than that they be governed, self-governed if possible, well-governed if...
The Suicidal Dream of Becoming an Immense Parasite that Feeds off of our Oil
Esta gran proporción de riqueza de origen destructivo crecerá sin duda alguna el día en que los impuestos mineros se hagan más justos y remunerativos, hasta acercarse al...
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