Juan Goes Off
Over in Spanish, Cesar Pérez Vivas sets Juan off…
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Ten black boxes
Over in CrónicasdeCaracas.net, a frustrated rant on the sheer impossibility of figuring out how much the government spends.
Nausea
The thought that the man responsible for this has been honored and lionized in my own country fills me with a kind of dread-soaked rage that feels curiously...
Revolutionary Priorities
The blue bars are the government’s 2011 spending budget. The orange bar is our estimate of the opportunity cost of selling gas below the world price.
Word of the Day: Agnotology
Definition: “the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt.” According to John Quiggin, an agnotological belief acts as a political shibboleth, “that is, an affirmation that marks the speaker...
In a perfect world
A Venezuelan newspaper would find a dogged, talented journalist and give him/her a research budget, six months and enough exposure to blow the top right off of a story...
Españolification Chronicles
So I’ve decided that the way I’m going to get all you deadbeats to check out CronicasDeCaracas.net is by posting most new material in Spanish only over the...
"Rangel Silva es un gocho A-1"
…that, at least, is how convicted felon Moises Maiónica sees it. As our favorite Narco-general takes the dais at the National Assembly, take a trip down memory lane...
Give us a hand up, yeah?
So, we’re finding out what Miguel and Daniel have known all along: building an audience for the Spanish doppleganger to an English blog about Venezuela is not so...
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