Keep walking...right over the BoP cliff-edge
Been having trouble shaking that end-of-times feeling over the looping Balance of Payments cliff-edge? Here’s some confirmation-bias catnip for you: Faced with an acute shortage of dollars and...
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Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Walking Blindfolded Towards The Edge of a Cliff
This story in El Nuevo Herald is…well, just staggering: En una muestra del grave estado de las finanzas públicas venezolanas, el régimen de Nicolás Maduro ha emprendido lo...
Journey Into the Heart of Chavista Darkness (Updated)
Fresh from a week-long junket to Caracas for the 10th World Poetry Festival, German poet Xochil Schütz reels from the scale and depravity of the propaganda state she...
An Allegory of Superior (and Inferior) Organs
The Leader was cross. His flagship policy, the one he’d staked his reputation on, the one he’d learned from his revered predecessor, the Timeless One, could not be...
Dark Night of the Defecating Mephistopheles
Miguel, in a deep deep funk, makes a point that bears repeating: You are worried that there is a shortage of dollars? Well, let me remind you this...
Ni pa eso Chronicles
Turns out Abdel el-Zabayar, the pro-Chávez Syrian-Venezuelan member of the National Assembly who shipped off to Syria to fight on the government’s side as part of some messed up International...
Occam's Razor on Sabotage
Willie Neuman’s piece in the New York Times today on Maduro’s sabotage-obsession is a pretty good primer for people who haven’t been following the story. It bothers me...
Today in Orwellianismo Endógeno
President Maduro has announced that the government will henceforth produce a “Newscast of Truth” to be carried, en cadena, twice daily. Just to spell this out for any...
My secret man-crush on Andrés Izarra
Tourism Minister Andrés Izarra is getting restless. The architect of chavismo’s Communicational Hegemony strategy has ambitions far bigger than what his crappy new cabinet post can contain. Yesterday,...
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