Can you fall in love with a graph?
Brilliant stuff. Here is the original source. Notice how Venezuela has the largest per capita carbon emissions in South America. Notice, also, that two of the disproportionately high-emissions...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
A Spanish-language blog roll call
Over at cronicasdecaracas.net, we’re trying to compile a list of the best Spanish-language opposition-minded Venezuelan blogs. Got any suggestions? Sound off on the comments board.
Finding the story in our squalid news
One of the things that I find most disappointing about the Venezuelan press is how they frequently miss the important aspects of the stories they pretend to report....
Transitional justice
A man makes millions of dollars helping Colombian guerrillas ship cocaine to hungry markets via Venezuela. Or he makes them through bribing financial institutions in order to exempt them...
A Manifesto for the Spanish-language blog
Over on CaracasChronicles-eE.com, Quico just posted an absolutely untranslatable manifesto of what exactly we’re aiming for with the blog in Spanish, filled with Orwell quotes, coños, and vainas....
Don't think of an elephant!
Hugo Chávez has a new pet peeve. Whatever you do, do not call him a dictator! Today he showed how much it annoyed him, when he said that if...
The early 2012 Jockeying Report
They may not be doing it publicly yet, but make no mistake about it: the opposition’s early hopefuls for the 2012 presidential nomination are already quietly but actively...
¡Fuenteovejuna, señor!
Geolver Hernández. Luis Castaño. Ray Longaray. José Rafael Márquez Gamboa. Rafael Urdaneta. Luis Román. Jeferies Moreno García. Erwin Pulgar Barrios. Carlos Soto. José María Urdaneta Romero. No need...
Talk about talking
As the government starts calling for dialogue, you may get a distinct feeling of déjà vu. After all, isn’t this the exact same thing Chávez did the last...
The real reason he's being so friendly
His numbers are in the tank. Percentage of people saying Venezuela is either stuck or in decline: 68.4%. Percentage of people who think the country is headed in...
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