Les Misérables
Juan Cristobal says: – This from the Annals of Dadaist Dictatorship Chronicles: Two bakers in the city of Guanare, in central Venezuela, were arraigned today. Their crime? Selling...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
The fictional 2.15
Juan Cristobal says: – The government likes to boast about how it has kept the exchange rate fixed at Bs.F. 2.15 for a number of years. They make...
The number cruncher
Juan Cristobal says: – In recent days, Hugo Chavez named former Finance Minister Nelson Merentes to head Venezuela’s Central Bank. The move would not be chavista if it...
Christopher Toothaker, or the problem with mainstream media
Juan Cristobal says: – This weekend’s rapprochement between the U.S. and Venezuela is, without a doubt, good news. We have long argued on this blog that isolating Chavez...
Chavez as Annie Wilkes
Juan Cristobal says: – First came Columbus. Now … Gallegos! El Universal is reporting that the bust of Rómulo Gallegos, first Venezuelan in the modern era to be...
Our Constitution up in flames
Juan Cristobal says: Freedom of expression. The right to elect officials. The right to a fair trial. Freedom of religion. Those all sound swell, don’t they? They are...
Petro-dictatorship chronicles
Juan Cristobal says: – The autocratic ruler of a petro-state has just been re-elected President for an unprecedented third term after Parliament removed term limits from the Constitution....
Chavez makes a power grab
Juan Cristobal says: – That headline is ridiculous, isn’t it? Chavez is perhaps the most powerful man in the history of our nation, more powerful than Simon Bolivar...
kombat karive
Juan Cristobal says: – The BBC has a video on indigenous Venezuelan martial arts. They don’t mention the government, but surely this is something they have their hand...
Green with envy yet, Hugo?
Juan Cristobal says: – Check out who Barack Obama thinks is the “most popular politician on the planet.” Hint: it’s not Hugo Chavez. http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/external/player.swf
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