The View from Your Window: Concón
Concón, Chile: 6:45 p.m. Send us the View from Your Window: caracaschronicles at fastmail dot fm, or nageljuan at gmail dot com. Please ensure the window frame is...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
An Oppo Fit For Primaries
Quico says: Throughout the day yesterday, Juan and I had a sprawling big fight about his Primaries post, all revolving around the question: is there any way the...
Any union you want, so long as it's mine
Quico says: There is one thing we can be sure about ahead of today’s oil-sector union elections: chavismo is going to win. Of the ten slates on the...
The Shadow of Eligio Cedeño
Quico says: “Take Eligio Cedeño,” The Contact says, “to this day, I’ve never been able to figure out exactly how he fucked up.” We’re sitting in one of...
Graduating Out of the Axis of Annoyance
Quico says: It’s tempting to dismiss Rodrigo Sanz’s revelation that Iran is collaborating with Venezuela in an effort to secure high grade Uranium in Santa Elena de Uairén...
Radioactive
Quico says: So, just one day after Presidents Obama, together with Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown, warned Iran that they’ve determined that “the size and configuration of this...
The Thicket
The fine landed like a bombshell in this well-appointed east-side building’s condo board. The government was fining them for BsF.60,000 – some $10,700 at the no-joke exchange rate...
The View from Your Window: Virginia Water
Virginia Water, Surrey, England. Send us the View from Your Window: caracaschronicles at fastmail dot fm, or nageljuan at gmail dot com. Please ensure the window frame is...
Non-Traditional Exports
[In a provocative journal article on Chávez’s strategy to project power abroad…] Javier Corrales says: If a foreign government or politician accepts Venezuelan aid, what follows is more...
Clarifications on Bocarandagate
Quico says: Oh, I do enjoy riling you all up once in a while. But since the general level of up-rilery appears to be a bit higher than...
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