la vacance de monsieur padrón
Resulta que a Leonardo Padrón se le ocurrió ir a Playa El Agua: Dos kilómetros más allá conseguimos un mejor sitio. Se me acerca un vendedor de los...
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Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Viernes Afrodescendiente, Pluricultural y Multiétnico UPDATED
SIBCI has been heavily trailing the “Economic Measures” to be announced by new Economic Veep Rafael Ramírez later today. Logic suggests that if they were going to announce...
Omnishambles Chronicles
Nicolás Maduro had barely finished making his big Foreign Exchange Control system announcement yesterday before he was in damage control mode. Having initially announced that a sum roughly equivalent...
The worse it gets, the better
Writing around the time of the Russian hyperinflation (1919), Lenin had this to say… Hundreds of thousands of ruble notes are being issued daily by our treasury. This...
A hat tip and an ear-tug
We already had a King of Re-Bar, and now we have an Aluminium Tsar. It’s great to see the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad’s Joseph Poliszuk really digging into the affairs of...
Quién dijo que aquí no se hace periodismo de investigación?
What’s that you say? You wanna mug Mr. Alcasa? ‘mafraid you’ll have to get in line behind Mr. Glencore here. Take it away, Clavel Rangel, Katherine Pennacchio, Marianela Balbi and...
Things that you cannot make up, part 17,286
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Our Real Comparative Advantage is in Arbitrage
Now that the government has ever-so-sovereignly declared that Bs.31,200 is the sovereign price of a ton of aluminum in the domestic market, why not try this fun experiment at home?...
Guayana, meet the Hegemony
All kinds of very strange stories have been circulating about the situation in the SOE-Hearland of Ciudad Guayana, where a SIDOR strike that’s about to enter its third...
The Best Reporting I've Seen on Venezuelan Prisons Yet
SBS, an Australian public broadcaster, is a bit of an unknown entity to me. But this report by Giovana Vitola from inside Margarita’s prison is an absolute tour...
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