I can't win, can I?
A reader: This is not a comment about comments. This is a comment on “A moratorium on comments-about-comments”. Since I am subject to the moratorium to comments about...
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Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
There's still room for Orimulsion...
Gustavo Coronel, who has the unfair advantage added bonus of actually knowing what he’s talking about, weighs in on the Orimulsión debate: The Orinoco region contains different grades...
Blast from the Past Chronicles: Orimulsion Edition
The Capriles Campaign’s decision to bring back Orimulsion from the dustbin of failed innovation history has introduced something the campaign had almost completely lacked until now – an...
Not even the Olympics can rescue TVes's ratings...
I found this astonishing: Rubén Limardo’s gold-medal winning effort in London got about 1/3rd to 1/5th of the ratings on TVes as the regular old Telenovela gets every...
A moratorium on comments-about-comments
Juan is right. Comments-via-Email probably does run counter to some deeply ingrained Venezuelan cultural values. That’s a singularly bad reason to oppose it, though, just like Venezuelans’ deep...
The backstory on Central Azucarero Sucre
A reader fills in the backstory on Central Azucarero Sucre, where the government has been – ahem – creatively applying its own inamovilidad laboral decree… I first visited...
If only we had first world institutions, like Kenya...
What does it take to get a proper police investigation into Bolivarian drug trafficking? Apparently, a bit of a detour through East Africa, that’s what. The entire Olga...
Due Process is in the Eye of the Beholder
I’m a couple of weeks late on this one, but I think The Economist’s take on Venezuela’s quickie accession to Mercosur was really enlightening. As the chart on...
Not everybody hates Comments via Email
Old comments section stalwart GTAvex sticks his neck out: I find the new policy refreshing: it’s not trying to pander to us with a self-congratulatory “democracy-means-free-for-all” while people write...
How to Flout the Layoff Freeze and Live to Tell the Tale
Unpaid severance pay? Mass layoffs? In direct contravention of the inamovilidad laboral decrees? Man, these guys are so getting expropriated! …oh, wait.
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