emiduarte, Author at Caracas Chronicles

Spoiled greens

SICAD has just been rolled out as a panacea for foreign currency scarcity in Venezuela. But if descriptions of the bureaucratic mess involved in obtaining dollars at auction are...

emiduarte March 20, 2013

Face-off: what a novel concept!

I’m officially petitioning for a moratorium on every sort of “we’re so screwed because it’s an uneven playing field” speak. All this fatalistic chatter is old and tired,...

emiduarte March 18, 2013

Our sources shall remain anonymous

After last week’s explosive leak of Maduro’s secret strategy memo, we now come across another scandalous bit of inside information from the Comando Hugo Chávez camp: the campaign...

emiduarte March 18, 2013

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