Brother, can you spare $49,665,810,000?
Quico says: According to people idle enough to actually keep track of these things, in the first half of the year the Chávez government announced plans to spend...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Chavez vs. The Grassroots
Quico says: Teodoro Petkoff has this little riff about how Venezuela’s democratic roots just run too deep for an authoritarian model to really take hold. The relatively liberal...
Beyond satire
Quico says: I wanted to make fun of this little rant, but on second thought, the thing satirizes itself: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has vowed to expel foreigners...
Role confusion
Quico says: So within the last 48 hours, we’ve found out that Four years on, PDVSA still can’t figure out a way to hire enough drills to keep...
The Petroleum Tax Credit
Quico says: Over the last two posts (here and here), I’ve explained why I think the Venezuelan state should distribute all of its oil income (yes, all of...
Torres for dummies
Quico says: Yesterday’s post was probably too long and convoluted, so today I’ll make it as simple as I can. Everybody loves a PowerPoint, right? Here, in barest...
Torres in Bethlehem
Quico says: Everybody knows Jesus of Nazareth wasn’t from Nazareth at all: he was born in a barn in Bethlehem. But what on earth was Mary doing gallivanting...
Caracas: De Informele Stad
Quico says: It’s great to run into a film about Venezuela that sets the politics to one side and focuses on the way the society actually works. Caracas:...
Gone fishing
Quico says: Katy and I are both out of town for the rest of the week. See y’all Monday.
Breakdown
Katy says: It’s a beautiful Saturday in Caracas, and I’m standing on the shoulder of the Cota Mil, because the cab I was riding in just broke down....
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