Annals of Dismal Clip Art
And yes, this is from an official presentation from our official National Statistical Institute… Oh INE…
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
INExcusably off-message
So INE has started presenting its 2011 Census results and, lo-and-behold, seven years after the government declared us an Illiteracy-Free Territory (and two years after the government went...
A short aside on Predicmática
On the heels of YVPolis’s latest, just a quick note on no-name, no-track-record “pollster” Predicmática. Although this new firm is apparently not entirely a Maletín-based undertaking – good...
Gorragate for Beginners
I found it surprisingly hard to explain just how crazy Gorragate is to a gringo audience. You tell me if I succeeded…
Chavista oil workers threaten...a paro!
So, with this forthright, very explicit statement refusing to countenance working under a Capriles administration, aren’t PDVSA’s chavista unions in Zulia basically threatening a paro petrolero!? ¡Ni un...
¡Hagamos dos, tres, muchos fake pollsters!
A couple of observations about YV Polis’s latest poll chart. Man, there’s a crazy number of Fake Pollsters out there, on both sides. ICS? Fake. ServiMercadeo? Super fake....
Government: Nobody has died in Venezuela for any reason since 2003
A reader: I’m continually astonished that no one ever seems to challenge the government claim, most recently repeated by Yadira Cordova just the other day, that Barrio Adentro...
Handles like oil, priced like coal
A reader notes that another point in favor of Orimulsion is that it doesn’t count towards OPEC production quotas. This New York Times article gives you a feel...
El Caracazo nuestro de cada día
So I’m just now – far too late, I know – settling down to read Mirtha Riveros’s La Rebelión de los Náufragos, a blow-by-blow account the pivotal second...
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