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Monthly Archives: December 2011
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 times in 2011. If it were competing at London Olympic Stadium, it … Continue reading
Posted in In Other News
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A wish for the new year
Merry Christmas everyone.
Posted in Chavez cancer, Human Rights, Opposition, Primaries, Venezuelan Culture
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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 the tinpot dictatorships will lead its people to prosperity is galling in … Continue reading
“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 the absence of identifiable warring factions. Personally, though, I think Kevin Ávila-style … Continue reading
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 kind of Cultural Alzheimer’s disease that eats away at the Venezuelan public … Continue reading
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 re-visiting. The money quote, in an article chock-full of them: “… there … Continue reading
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 just informed me that the results from the test are in. His … Continue reading
Posted in Education
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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 the new government. There is a lot to digest in there, or … Continue reading
Posted in Opposition
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“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 Regional Command 1 headquarters in Táchira State… Staggered much? Good. Now take … Continue reading
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 receive a pension. I caught a bit of the cadena today, and … Continue reading
Posted in Misiones
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Poll Nerd Heaven
Can it really be that Ricardo Sucre’s massive trove of Chávez era polling slides has been hiding in plain sight for all these years, and I didn’t know about it? I’m embarrassed, really…though, in fact, I’m too giddy with excitement to … Continue reading
Posted in Polls
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Did Luisa Estella really say it’s OK to invade? (Updated: Probably, but doubts remain)
The media in Venezuela are abuzz with the latest sentence from the Supreme Tribunal. In it, the Court says that Article 471 of Venezuela’s Penal Code, which supposedly orders jail time for people who “invade” or “occupy” land or assets … Continue reading
Posted in Constitution
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The state of play, video version
Trying to catch up with the state of the campaign videos. First off, this excellent biographical spot from the Pablo Pérez campaign. Next, a simple ad from Leopoldo López that won rave reviews from Daniel. Maria Corina Machado’s strong debate … Continue reading
Today’s Must-Read
…is Tom O’Donnell’s latest on the Chinese frustration over chavista foot-dragging on Faja projects. The gap between the conventional wisdom and the real story here is especially wide. Check it out.
Posted in International chavistas
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Quo IVADis?
The most suspicious thing about the supposed IVAD poll showing Hugo Chávez beating all opponents by 20+ points, and enjoying popularity ratings in the (stratospheric) seventies? The only people citing this clear outlier in the polls are José Vicente Rangel, … Continue reading
Posted in Polls
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