Quico says: According to Chávez, the only reason he’s getting all this flack about closing RCTV is a giant conspiracy against him. “International rightist, extreme-rightist and fascist movements...
Katy says: Notes from the nonsensical revolution: – Interior Minister Pedro Carreño says, in a press conference for the ages, that people have a right to protest but...
RSF says: Unfortunately, there is no longer any doubt about Chávez’s goals: RCTV’s closure was just the prelude to the progressive disappearance of all the opposition press. Media...
My earliest political memory is of my grandfather’s ankle. I couldn’t have been more than 5 or 6. I was playing on the floor in front of him,...
Quico says: Noticiero Digital’s editor, Roger Santodomingo, strikes me as an uncommonly lucid observer of our political reality. I took the trouble to translate part of his latest...
Katy says: Or at least the first I’ve seen.
Quico says: According to Google News, wire service stories about the protests in Venezuela this week have been picked up by 1,241 publications around the world. And that’s...
Katy says: Our old friend Pepe sends us this link from Noticiero Digital. Three hundred students from Central University in Caracas have decided to turn themselves in to...
Quico says: The best piece on RCTV’s closure in the English language press is in The Economist.
Quico says: …it would be good to turn comments back on for a few days so those of you in Venezuela can write in about what’s happening on...
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