Rationing Fail
The man they call Setty continues to rock the Venezuelan blogosphere with eye-opening, new material. Today, he has this on the failure of the government’s electric rationing plan...
Communications Guerrilla shocked, shocked at the language in its comments section...
This one is self-parodic on so many levels, you don’t exactly know where to start. The "Guerrilla Communicacional" Blog has had to shut down its comments section due...
Caracas Chronicles 2.1
We’re getting ever closer to the launch of our sister site in Spanish. Before we do that, though, we want to make sure the underlying software is just...
A New Kid on the Block
This week sees the launch of a blog you really shouldn’t miss: Setty’s Notebook. Run by a longtime Caracas Chronicles reader and sometime guest-poster, the blog is well-informed...
Our broke-ass oil giant...
So, why are PDVSA’s 2014 bonds yielding upwards of 14%?! Because PDVSA is one singularly broke-ass company these days. How broke? Its debt and accounts payables have soared to...
Pimp my ride
I am breaking my vow to ignore the happenings at Los Proceres to ask a simple question: Is our dressed-up, anti-imperialist, marxist President … riding a Cadillac?!
Trying to ignore the "celebration"
I’ve said what I think of the government’s pathetic attempts to turn the 200th Anniversary of the beginning of our independence into some proto-marxist, botox-infused military charade. So...
Sign #4,356 that Venezuela is no longer a democracy
Imagine that somebody alleged Barack Obama secretly met with Mexican druglords in, say, the deserts of Juarez, prior to becoming President. It’s not far-fetched to think that Robert...
Of course, hackistry plays a role too...
Over the last few days, I’ve been on a bit of a crusade to document the ways artificially low energy prices lead to overconsumption, contributing to the electric...
Benchmarking Our Insanely Cheap Juice
Turns out that the Economist Intelligence Unit has been doing research similar to my little "View from Your Electric Bill" feature for a long time, and a good...
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