How We're Like Nicaragua in 1990, and How We're Not
It’s become the stuff of Latin American Legend, and a favorite Caprilista talking point of the last few months: despite trailing badly in most well-regarded polls, Nicaragua’s Violeta...
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Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Domesticar el Petróleo
Maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong. Maybe the problem with the oil industry is down to gigantism, an inhuman scale that concentrates wealth along a handful...
Your pick for Capriles's VP
Word is that Henrique Capriles will announce, among others, his pick for the vice-presidency tomorrow (Monday.) Who would you like to see in that role? The VP pick...
Does anybody actually edit El Universal's opinion pages? UPDATED
According to this opinion piece in El Universal, a couple of Venezuelan guys in Miami have just invented a perpetual motion machine of the second kind. Really. Amazingly,...
Great Moments in Hysterical Headline Writing
See that scary headline in Spain’s conservative ABC newspaper on Chávez’s “armed comandos” in case he loses the election? Scary!…until you read the actual text of the article...
Ideological Rigidity -> Mismanagement -> Corruption -> Repeat
My usual process when I sit down to write for a foreign audience is to ask myself: what features of the Chávez era are entirely evident to Venezuelans...
The Wrong Type of Lightning
That’s right, folks. It’s not gringo mercenaries, wayward possums or Langley-trained iguanas that got El Palito refinery. It’s the wrong type of lightning: Petróleos de Venezuela reconoció que los...
Worth a Thousand Words Chronicles
Funny to see most major media shying away from showing the fire in El Palito refinery from this angle. Self-censorship: thine homes are many.
Double Digits Chronicles
Caracas Chronicles is ten years old today. Ten! Back when it all kicked off, you had to spell out that “blog” was short for “web log” each time...
He Who Shall Not Be Named Chronicles...
Once every great while, buried under the heaps of T&A, LaPatilla.com really does have an interesting tidbit. Witness… From Briceño Guerrero to this…oy vey…
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