Small Walls
And now for something completely different: my wife Kanako’s first show in Caracas opens this Sunday, October 9th, at 11 a.m., at the Parque Cultural Hacienda La Trinidad....
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Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Worst. Social policy. Ever!
Imagine a candidate who went to the country with this message: Compatriotas! When I am president, I will finally spread the oil wealth fairly. What I’ll do is,...
As if Venezuela didn't have enough loss-making state owned companies of its own...
…now it’s taking on Uruguay’s, as well. Sigh…you’d think one thing we wouldn’t need to import is public sector money pits. [Hat tip: Setty, who else?]
The candidate for people who hate politics
Yesterday’s campaign launch speech to the Primero Justicia party conference by Miranda governor Henrique Capriles Radonski was none too subtle about how he intends to position himself: as the candidate...
It's crazy numbers day at Caracas Chronicles
So I realize it’s Friday night and nobody’s reading blogs right now, but I couldn’t let this item pass un-commented… Venezuelan oil firm to inject $45 billion into...
Math Fail
So, according to El Mundo, Venezuela spends some $3 million per day on diesel for electrical generation, since 200,000 barrels of the stuff is being devoted to thermoelectric...
Global Barrel of Laughs
If you don’t already check Setty’s blog compulsively, here’s another reason to. Setty’s especially good at ferreting out online material that ought to be getting much more exposure...
El Tigre and the opposition mononeuron
Over on the Spanish site, Raul Aular bucks Caracas Chronicles’s anti-dinosaur orthodoxy with a post making the case for Eduardo Fernández’s candidacy. It’s a neat piece of conventional...
The Red Apertura and the forgotten art of disarming atomic bombs
Here’s a factoid you’d do well to squirrel away: through a crazy quirk of geology, there’s more recoverable oil under Southern Guárico, Anzoátegui and Monagas States than anywhere...
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