Francisco Toro plans to win the Boston Marathon
I mean, in theory, I’d love to win the Boston Marathon. Not that I’m willing to train 8-10 hours per day, you understand. Or eat a marathon runner’s diet....
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Iris Varela, no longer funny
I’ll admit, when Iris Varela was appointed to a cabinet position, I smiled broadly. Iris is a nutter, a loose cannon, the personification of unhinged chavista maximalism, but...
Random chavista paper makes stuff up, Juan gets tangled up
So Juan got a bit tangled in the weird round of allegations and denials about the Venezuelan football team’s supposed – but false – troubles getting a U.S....
Geez XXI
So, GIS XXI just published a “poll” gauging the public’s reaction to the announcement that Chávez has cancer. (No prizes for guessing what Jesse’s genius pollsters found.) Funny thing,...
Extra! Extra! Nepotist writes speech, makes us splash it on the front page of his paper!
What do you call someone who makes the paper he edits run his own speeches as front-page news? Il hacko di tutti i hacki? Folks, El Nacional editor Miguel...
The Santos Luzardo Moment
Sitting here in the comfort of my Montreal apartment and the security of my Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation-protected bank account, it’s a wee bit uncomfortable for me to...
Will that include the math books?
The Minister for Science and Technology is promising a series of events to sell school supplies with savings of up to 130%. Really. [Hat tip: the other CC.]
Expediente por expediente...
…idle thought: is Iris Varela personally going to go through the files of each of the 15,000 or so prison inmates she intends to let loose on Venezuelan...
Optimizing What?
The previous post got a pretty good debate going about oil policy. One point, though, kept coming up in different ways from different commenters: seeing “optimizing the tax...
You can't put optimal oil policy on a bumper sticker
…well, not a sensible bumper sticker, anyway. Oil policy in a context like Venezuela’s is irreducibly complex. You could say you want to maximize the cash flow to...
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