The Theory and Practice of Revolutionary Metabullshit
Quico says: Hats off to Tibisay Lucena. The head of the National Elections Council is more ambitious than she seems. First, she pulled off a feat that seemed...
Life
Coming soon in Foreign Affairs
Quico says: It’s great fun to watch Francisco Rodríguez run an analytical bulldozer through a mountain of chavista bullshit. Choice bit: One would expect [the consensus abroad that...
Fidel Castro resigns!
Quico says: Newsrooms rush to tweak his obituary!
Empire of Doublethink
Quico says: I’m a bit late to this story, but I don’t want to let it go without comment. The way Chávez justified his decision to raise milk...
Are we having fun yet?
The Onion says:
I am not taking my hand off of this hot stove until you say uncle!
Quico says: So, for the Nth time, Chávez has threatened to stop selling oil to the US. This was a non-story the last time it came around, and...
¿Qué pasaría en Venezuela si no existiera Globovisión?
Quico says: Nobody who reads this blog regularly could mistake us for fans of Globovisión, Venezuela’s 24-hour opposition news station. For years Katy and I have been taking...
Selecting for halabolivarianismo
Quico says: So Chávez went out to Santa Bárbara de Barinas to tour one of his revolutionary co-ops. At one point, some of the actual co-op workers got...
This can't last, it's too stupid...
Quico says: Everybody talks about how crazy Mario Silva is. Not living in Venezuela, I don’t much watch Chávez’s favorite TV talk show host. This clip, out of...
Silence is golden, words are made of lead
Quico says: You can always tell when a news story genuinely catches the chavista propaganda machine unprepared. Terrified of publishing anything that may, in retrospect, turn out to...
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