Leadership on the Gas Subsidy
Here’s a fun question to ponder: how much do Gasoline Subsidies really cost Venezuela? Everybody knows the answer, right? With gas fetching just a few US cents a gallon,...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Resorteme Bait
One point that really can’t be made often enough is that the 1999 Constitution doesn’t magically lose its validity somehow just because nobody pays any attention to it....
Must be the U.S. constitution he's reading...
In a rare bit of (seemingly) good news for the opposition, President Chávez has decided to veto the Universities Law that the 95% chavista outgoing National Assembly just...
Shocked, shocked no longer...
New Year’s Resolutions are famously made to be broken. Mine, ‘mafraid, will be no exception: I’m resolving to stop writing about Entirely Predictable, By-Now Routine Abuses of the Venezuelan...
A 1,942% Return on Investment, in Three Months
Say I offered you $2,450 in three months in return for a $120 deposit. Would you take the deal? Of course you would…with Pride! (I dunno how Setty...
Our Southern Mirror
Poverty falling, and fast. A stable, growing economy, resilient to external shocks. Low, steady inflation. Inequality falling, and fast. An appreciating currency. Improving educational standards. Successive leftwing governments increasingly...
The Banality of Incompetence
One story that should be getting more play abroad is the simply amazing tale of the oil Venezuela is selling to China for $5/barrel…only for the Chinese to turn...
Under the Radar: Maracay's Imminent Shitstorm
Here’s a story the ever Caracas-centric media’s barely noticed: the recent rains have left the heavily-polluted Lake of Valencia on the verge of a major flood. The water...
Carlos Andrés Pérez - 1922-2010 - Fashion Victim
Carlos Andrés Pérez, who dominated Venezuela’s social democratic landscape for over a quarter of a century, has died at the age of 88, on Christmas day. CAP, as...
Usually, we take a break for Christmas
…this year, though, the government won’t. So we don’t get to, either.
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