So you wanna be a STATA monkey?
Ever dream of becoming a hardcore statahead, effortlessly crunching any amount of data that happens to come your way? Well, you’re in luck. Longtime friend of the blog...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Annals of Revolutionary Innovation: The E-Ration Book
Folks, it was inevitable, which is why it’s happened: the ration book is here, soon to be piloted in Maracaibo. The twist? It’s a database in the cloud...
Let's-Flog-This-Dead-Horse-S'more Chronicles
Listen, I remember the criticisms from 2004 because I made a lot of them. When fraud claims came following the Recall Referendum then, they all seemed to be...
Priorities, Priorities
A version of this chart has been making the rounds on Facebook. I did the inflation adjustment.
Nope, not a Chigüire story...
Sigh… El embajador de Irán en Venezuela, Hojattolah Soltani, informó hoy que ofreció a los nuevos dueños del canal privado venezolano Globovisión la programación en castellano del canal...
Tropical Hathos Chronicles
Andrew Sullivan defines “Hathos” (from “hate” + “pathos”) as those moments when you want to look away but cannot. Hathos is the attraction to something you really can’t...
Taking the Measure of Celestially-Bestowed Follicle
I’m always slightly alarmed when I find out that Alejandro Tarre disagrees with me, because that’s usually a pretty reliable indicator that I got it wrong. For Tarre,...
Really, Auntie Beeb? UPDATED
UPDATE: Success! The story’s headline is suddenly altered. I usually go out of my way to resist the BBC-bashing instincts of many of my readers, mostly cuz I...
THIS is why chavismo can't work without Chávez
Ever since July 2011, when Chávez first announced his cancer diagnosis, it was clear to me that the revolution’s formal institutionality was so shallowly grounded and devoid of...
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