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		<title>The best bit from the Mario Tape</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/20/the-best-tip-from-the-mario-tape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francisco Toro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to pick just one, there&#8217;s so much crazy stuff in there. I&#8217;m tempted to go with &#8220;the opposition had a plan to commit election fraud on April 14th&#8221;. But no. The best bit is: MARIO SILVA: El día &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/20/the-best-tip-from-the-mario-tape/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28337&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A house divided</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/20/a-house-divided/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Cristobal Nagel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diosdado Cabello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Maduro]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caracaschronicles.com/?p=28333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Venezuela&#8217;s opposition revealed today a recording of a conversation between influential Chavista broadcaster Mario Silva and (presumably) a member of Cuba&#8217;s intelligence. In the recording, Silva is overheard blasting Diosdado Cabello as corrupt, and saying that Cilia Flores is the &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/20/a-house-divided/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28333&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capriles announces high drama (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/20/capriles-announces-high-drama/</link>
		<comments>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/20/capriles-announces-high-drama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Cristobal Nagel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chavismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opposition]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caracaschronicles.com/?p=28329</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A cryptic Henrique Capriles took to social media last night to tell us of a dramatic announcement, which should be coming today at 11:30 AM Venezuela time. I have no idea what it could be, but according to well-placed sources &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/20/capriles-announces-high-drama/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28329&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s moment of zen</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/17/your-moment-of-zen/</link>
		<comments>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/17/your-moment-of-zen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 01:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Cristobal Nagel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy weekend, everyone. HT: Élides Rojas.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28323&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scarcity was much cooler under Chávez</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/17/scarcity-was-much-cooler-under-chavez/</link>
		<comments>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/17/scarcity-was-much-cooler-under-chavez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emiliana Duarte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Maduro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the last presidential campaign, I took to highlighting the differences between a Chavez-led race and a Chávez –less one. For the sake of consistency, indulge me while I revisit this theme during its immediate aftermath, by asking: what is &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/17/scarcity-was-much-cooler-under-chavez/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28311&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AVN foils Google&#8217;s evil plan (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/16/avn-foils-googles-evil-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/16/avn-foils-googles-evil-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gustavo Hernandez Acevedo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In Other News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Maduro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Venezuelan State news agency AVN is apparently angry. But why? Is it because of the toilet paper shortage? Or perhaps because of recent events of violence in Cojedes State? No, and no. According to this report, the evil search engine &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/16/avn-foils-googles-evil-plan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28290&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How do you eat a barrel of oil?</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/16/how-do-you-eat-a-barrel-of-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/16/how-do-you-eat-a-barrel-of-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Cristobal Nagel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chavismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caracaschronicles.com/?p=28301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I ask &#8217;cause if the dire predictions come true, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re gonna have to do. In the Transitions blog, I wonder if we&#8217;re on the road to becoming a failed state. My money quote: Venezuela has so far avoided &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/16/how-do-you-eat-a-barrel-of-oil/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28301&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The victim of my rant of the day: the Associated Press</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/16/the-victim-of-my-rant-of-the-day-the-associated-press/</link>
		<comments>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/16/the-victim-of-my-rant-of-the-day-the-associated-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Cristobal Nagel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Clever use of puns aside (&#8220;Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls,&#8221; chuckle chuckle), I have a small beef to raise about this AP story, reprinted by The Guardian and, most likely, hundreds of other &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/16/the-victim-of-my-rant-of-the-day-the-associated-press/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28285&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Micro-managing the downfall</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/15/micro-managing-the-downfall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 18:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Cristobal Nagel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caracaschronicles.com/?p=28278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Economists sometimes use the term &#8220;bounded rationality&#8221; to explain the impossibility managers have in understanding reality in all its complexity. Basically, bounded rationality says that managers and economic actors are rational, but only up to a point. At that point, &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/15/micro-managing-the-downfall/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28278&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">With today&#039;s inflation, it reads like the Sucesos page</media:title>
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		<title>Remember SICAD? Remember THIS guy?</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/15/remember-sicad/</link>
		<comments>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/15/remember-sicad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francisco Toro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t? Don&#8217;t feel bad: nobody does. After a single dollar auction back on March 24th, the new parallel-to-CADIVI system for distributing dollars whimpered off into the oblivion where it should always have dwelled. No pragmatic decision-making of any kind &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/15/remember-sicad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28255&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Better call in the big guns... (extra points to the first commenter to identify this guy.)</media:title>
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		<title>My literal take on &#8220;Escasez&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/15/my-literal-take-on-escasez/</link>
		<comments>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/15/my-literal-take-on-escasez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emiliana Duarte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been experiencing my own personal shortage of words to write as of late, so what better way to make lemonade out of lemons (or arepas out of soy flour? ) than to make a video instead? Consider this my &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/15/my-literal-take-on-escasez/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28244&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The PSUV outsources to China</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/15/psuv-outsources-to-china/</link>
		<comments>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/15/psuv-outsources-to-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gustavo Hernandez Acevedo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chavismo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recently named Vice-President of China Li Yuanchao visited Venezuela and met with Nicolás Maduro in Miraflores Palace to sign a new batch of deals between both governments. Instead of focusing only on the economic front, it looks like our &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/15/psuv-outsources-to-china/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28216&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gas prices and car ownership</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/14/gas-prices-and-car-ownership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Cristobal Nagel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuelan Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting post about Venezuelan gasoline consumption from UC Berkeley Professor of Economics Lucas Davis. He says that Venezuelans don&#8217;t own more cars per capita than comparable countries in the region, so the large consumption must be because they own &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/14/gas-prices-and-car-ownership/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28229&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lorenzo Mendoza, prophet of privatization</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/14/lorenzo-mendoza-prophet-of-privatization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Cristobal Nagel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Maduro]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lorenzo Mendoza, CEO of Venezuela&#8217;s largest private company (Polar), gave a searing press conference yesterday. In it, Mendoza thoroughly debunked the myth that people can&#8217;t find corn flour because Polar is hoarding it. Interestingly enough, in the process of defending &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/14/lorenzo-mendoza-prophet-of-privatization/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28222&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A whole LOTTTa trouble</title>
		<link>http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/13/a-whole-lottta-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 19:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Cristobal Nagel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, Hugo Chávez wrote a little big law that has made it very difficult for companies to do business in Venezuela. Written from his sick bed, in the midst of a Presidential campaign, without consulting vast sectors of &#8230; <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/13/a-whole-lottta-trouble/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=caracaschronicles.com&#038;blog=4220356&#038;post=28174&#038;subd=caracaschronicles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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