Boiling it down
In Caracas Chronicles en Español CronicasDeCaracas.net: the transition in three bullet points.
Right Guard?
Reading my review of Randy Brewer’s book on The New Republic, Alejandro Tarre demanded a right of reply. Isaiah Berlin once wrote that, “as an intellectual discipline, it...
$%*& my Japanese wife says
My wife laughed hard at the tragic, yet still unmistakably funny story of the dozens of high-society Venezuelans coming back from a throw-the-house-out-the-window, no-expenses-spared Punta Cana wedding with...
Finding the story in our squalid news
One of the things that I find most disappointing about the Venezuelan press is how they frequently miss the important aspects of the stories they pretend to report....
Transitional justice
A man makes millions of dollars helping Colombian guerrillas ship cocaine to hungry markets via Venezuela. Or he makes them through bribing financial institutions in order to exempt them...
A Manifesto for the Spanish-language blog
Over on CaracasChronicles-eE.com, Quico just posted an absolutely untranslatable manifesto of what exactly we’re aiming for with the blog in Spanish, filled with Orwell quotes, coños, and vainas....
Don't think of an elephant!
Hugo Chávez has a new pet peeve. Whatever you do, do not call him a dictator! Today he showed how much it annoyed him, when he said that if...
Introducing Caracas Chronicles en Español
Almost from the moment this blog launched – all the way back in the pre-YouTube internet Paleozoic of 2002 – people have been asking me when I’ll launch...
Dismantling Allan Brewer-Carías
My review of Allan Brewer-Carías’s simply unreadable brick, Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela, is now up on TNR’s Book Review site. Fun bit: Perhaps Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela should be...
Enlace Venezuela: Getting Serious About The Day After
In this special guest post for 23 de enero, Jose Ramón Morales Arilla announces an exciting initiative to start in on some serious planning for What Comes Next:...
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