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2011 in review...

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for Caracas Chronicles. Here’s an excerpt: London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. This blog was viewed about 650,000...

Francisco Toro December 31, 2011

Life

A wish for the new year

Merry Christmas everyone.

Juan Cristobal Nagel December 20, 2011

Life

Full Confidence

Venezuela’s official condolences to the DPRK on the loss of their capital-L Leader were a bit underwhelming. Sure, Chávez’s expression of “full confidence” that the tinpottiest of all...

Francisco Toro December 19, 2011

Life

"A city with wartime levels of violence but no war."

Dorothy Kronick strikes again. First this, now this all-too-rare-in-foreign-media meditation on just how weird Venezuela’s urban violence epidemic is, with bloodletting on a scale normally associated with war spreading despite...

Francisco Toro December 18, 2011

Life

The article that finally made Julio Borges's head explode

Give Julio Borges his due. When the government promised to build 153,000 new homes in 2011, he knew he had his work cut out for him. Facing the...

Francisco Toro December 17, 2011

Life

Hitchens on Hugo

Christopher Hitchens is dead. Love him or hate him, man, did he have a way with words. His excoriation of Hugo Chávez is something to remember, well worth...

Juan Cristobal Nagel December 16, 2011

Life

PISA-tarios

In case you did not know, the government of Miranda recently applied the PISA educational quality test to students in its schools. Longtime reader and commenter Kepler has...

Juan Cristobal Nagel December 16, 2011

Politics

Wiki-MUD

A few days ago, I received the first draft of the MUD’s platform. It is an all-encompassing 163-page document, filled with the opposition’s promises, hopes and wishes for...

Juan Cristobal Nagel December 15, 2011

Politics

"But I'm not dead yet..."

Give your mind a second to reel at the sheer extravagance of the cult of personality in the mural below, now on proud display at the Guardia Nacional’s...

Francisco Toro December 14, 2011

Politics

The titanic struggle ahead

Today, Hugo Chávez launched a new social program: Misión Venezuela en Amor Mayor. Don’t ask me to translate that. The point? Making sure all senior citizens in Venezuela...

Juan Cristobal Nagel December 13, 2011

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