Clarity
Trying to pick out any one bit of Chávez’s 2010 Paquete Navideño (a.k.a. the current storm of lame-duck session laws) as the most unconstitutional of the bunch is...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
The Final Word (por ahora) On Wikileaks and Chávez
Alejandro Tarre has the most lucid piece yet on Wikileaks and Chávez. It’s in Spanish. You should read it.
The Eager Eunuch
The deepening state of collective insanity also known as the Bolivarian Republic has plumbed bizarre new depths over the last few days. But the news item that really...
Jumping the Visa queue by telling Valle Arriba how they juke the oil export stats
Ah, Wikileaks, the gift that keeps on giving…
On the Political Implications of the Imperfect Subjunctive
Chavismo’s long-rumored, long-feared push to crack down on the Internet is upon us, in the form of a draconian set of amendments to the Orwellianly named Law on...
ENI color you want, so long as it's green
Finally, some truly juicy bits about Venezuela are coming out of the Wikileaks cables. What’s coming out, though, is not exactly what Eva Golinger fantasized about when she...
Tomorrow, Today!
My friends, I have seen the future. Not in a Crystal Ball, mind you…but in an Ivory one.
Polar Squeeze
Control enough of its supply chain and expropriating Polar becomes almost superfluous.
Choices
Item 1: Venezuela’s population grows by about 450,000 people each year. At that rate, assuming 4.5 people per household, you need to build about 100,000 new homes every...
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