Mubarak : 2011 :: Chávez : 2012 ?
It’s become the opposition’s favorite parlor game: Could Chávez get Mubaraked next year? I think it could happen…but in an odd way. To see why, you have to...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Now we know what Marquina had on Yon Goicoechea
It wasn’t his right wing; it was his right hook! ps: check out VTV’s hilarious slide-show on the episode, which makes PSUV assemblyman Henry Ventura out to be...
The Oil Numbers and the A Priori Trap
You should read this. Honestly, you should. Why? Because, in Venezuela, few numbers are either as important or as opaque as PDVSA’s total production and exports. It’s a...
Get yourself a Gravatar!
Do you want your comments to show up next to a nice little identifying image you’ve picked yourself instead of one of these silly angular things – ?...
Teodoro Floats a Primary Date: October 15, 2011
We should be so lucky. (Guy says a document setting out detailed rules and regulations for a primary are in the process of being drafted, which sounds like...
Wonky. Specific. Bread-and-butter Centered. Straightforward.
I think Julio Borges’s attacks on Chávez’s foreign largesse are getting more and more effective: with the $13.5 billion Venezuela sends abroad in various subsidized oil schemes to bolster...
Venezuela's Prison Shame
Since 2000, Venezuela’s prison capacity has grown by 1,200 places, thanks to the expansion of Yare Penitenciary and the construction of a new jail in Coro. In the...
How to Cut the Murder Rate in Half by 2016
If you’re a believer in the Three Bullet-Point Transition (TM), you know that making deep inroads into Venezuela’s outrageously high murder rate is one of the things any...
Boiling it down
In Caracas Chronicles en Español CronicasDeCaracas.net: the transition in three bullet points.
Right Guard?
Reading my review of Randy Brewer’s book on The New Republic, Alejandro Tarre demanded a right of reply. Isaiah Berlin once wrote that, “as an intellectual discipline, it...
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