Bajadita Chronicles
Tell us more about how Venezuela can’t possibly face an economic apocalypse, Mark… BTW, fun isn’t it how inflation numbers have to be leaked by BCV flunkies these...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Sounds Like They've Thought This One Through
Now Nicolás Maduro wants to spread anti-aircraft guns through the hillside slums around Caracas. What could possibly go wrong with that?
Plastic Imitating Plastic
For readers more accustomed to sipping gingerly from the champagne flute of misogyny in First World public spheres, there’s something jarring about having to chug from the fire-hydrant...
Eschernomics
Expressing frustration at recent policy failures, President Maduro announced today a new initiative to regulate the process of water current formation, as part of a drive to finally...
The Energy Relationship Nobody Talks About
Did you know that last year Venezuela shipped more oil to India than to China? I sure didn’t! And did you know if Venezuela sold the oil it...
Watch and Learn, Muhammad Yunus
This is how we do Microcredit, Barlovento style… El viceministro de Política Interior, José Vicente Rangel Ávalos, anunció el 7 de septiembre esa instalación y dijo que tres...
Must Read
Is it just me, or are Alberto Barrera Tyszka’s columns in El Nacional quickly establishing themselves as the most lucid take on the through-the-looking-glass world of post-chavismo? Personally,...
How can you tell apart a cops' funeral cortege from a motorizado funeral cortege?
Turns out, in Monagas, you can’t… Maturín.- Una situación de completa anarquía se vive desde tempranas horas de la mañana de este jueves, cuando funcionarios de la Policía de...
Arreaza in Outright Self-Parody Mode
Today, there are 1 trillion bolivars in circulation in Venezuela. A year ago, there were Bs.583 billion. That, right there, is pretty much all you need to know to...
Halloween Special, cont.
Doubling down… And…am I the only one annoyed that these people clearly don’t know what the word ‘trilogy’ means? [Hat tip: Emi.]
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