It's crazy numbers day at Caracas Chronicles
So I realize it’s Friday night and nobody’s reading blogs right now, but I couldn’t let this item pass un-commented… Venezuelan oil firm to inject $45 billion into...
Global Barrel of Laughs
If you don’t already check Setty’s blog compulsively, here’s another reason to. Setty’s especially good at ferreting out online material that ought to be getting much more exposure...
El Tigre and the opposition mononeuron
Over on the Spanish site, Raul Aular bucks Caracas Chronicles’s anti-dinosaur orthodoxy with a post making the case for Eduardo Fernández’s candidacy. It’s a neat piece of conventional...
The Red Apertura and the forgotten art of disarming atomic bombs
Here’s a factoid you’d do well to squirrel away: through a crazy quirk of geology, there’s more recoverable oil under Southern Guárico, Anzoátegui and Monagas States than anywhere...
The Emperor has no clothes
The saddest thing about the memos that Venezuela’s ministers sent to Hugo Chávez while he was convalescing in Havanna?
Setty takes me to Scam Academy
Oh man I laughed with this one. Arevenca’s scam is too baroque to summarize here: let’s just say that they make Ovarb look like Lloyd’s of London. Be...
Minister of the People's Power for Trash Talking About Housing
Today, housing minister Ricardo Molina called together a bunch of media for a ceremony in Táchira to deliver 48 new homes. Forty eight! Except, as Julio Borges keeps...
Winning, yet losing
I’m not feeling too optimistic about the whole Leopoldo López saga. Last week, the Interamerican Court for Human Rights decided that López had been unfairly barred from running...
Machado stirs up the right-winger in me
Maria Corina Machado gave a really good speech yesterday on the issue of crime. I mouth off in the Spanish site.
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