STOP SHOUTING!
(Note: The following guest post, by longtime reader and fellow blogger Roberto Silvers, is an open letter offering some free political advice for Venezuela’s parliamentary opposition) by Roberto Silvers...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
Off-his-meds Chronicles (updated)
“It wouldn’t be strange to find out that Mars had a civilization, but then perhaps capitalism came, imperialism came, and laid the planet to waste.” Hugo Chávez today,...
What do we stand for?
Este post está disponible en español. Venezuela’s National Assembly, our playhouse of populist political theater, sometimes – once in a blue moon – has to actually legislate. One...
Even the government hates government
Whether it’s fixing potholes or keeping our streets safe, pumping our oil safely or distributing its rents fairly, there is simply very little our government gets right. Like...
The glut around the corner?
CNN is reporting that other countries are joining Saudi Arabia and raising crude production in light of the prolongued conflict in Libya. The list, as you can fathom,...
Politician past his prime in presidential poll
Today, former Zulia governor and third-place finisher in the 1993 Presidential election Oswaldo Álvarez Paz formally announced he will seek the opposition’s nomination in next year’s presidential election....
Mubarak should have called Fidel
I woke up this morning wanting to write a post on how much the situation in Egypt resembles the situation in Venezuela in 2002 and 2003. Back then,...
Things that are scarce
I hate to discuss this, but it’s so shocking it needs to be told. Apparently the latest thing you simply cannot find in Venezuela’ shelves is … sanitary...
The country you want
If I had to summarize a campaign motif for a presidential candidate – and you know I’m itching to – I would start with this graph from the...
Tone-deaf chronicles
I hate to continue barking at the shenanigans of the opposition’s old guard, but they make it so difficult! This weekend, we had a double-whammy of bone-headed ideas...
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