One more call for volunteers
Just a reminder that CaracasChronicles is still looking for volunteer geeks, data-heads and assorted hangers-on to carry out a unique research project: crowdsourcing a specific, costed, budgeted, worked out...
Economy
Good news for once
It’s Holy Week, so in the spirit of reaching out, and finding common ground, a positive story for once: Chinese officials are touring Venezuela’s ports ahead of a major new...
Giusti's antics put bloggers in peril
Don’t miss the latest on Setty’s ongoing tussle with former Luis Giusti-led company Alange Energy. Lawyers are filing papers all over the world!
The smell of Hades
A few years ago, Hugo Chávez famously claimed that George W. Bush had left the podium of the UN “reeking of sulphur.” He should know about that. Turns...
Time is your enemy
The great Miguel has a timeline of the nation’s electricity crisis. We will overcome. We’ve invested. There is no crisis. Yesterday’s blackout is an isolated event. The supply...
The $9 billion question
So, if we’re now using technology to make sure gasoline isn’t sold across the border … why can’t we use it to make sure we only subsidize gas...
If Linux can do it...
I’m still more or less floored by the response to my call for volunteers to craft a Conditional Cash Transfer Program proposal. There’s amazing expertise out there. I’m...
Fighting The Last War
To hear Teodoro Petkoff put it, either Chávez Econguru Giordani plain old lied about having spent $5.5 billion “fixing” the electric crisis, or the money was royally wasted....
The Overkill Evening News
I was kind of shocked to read in a Globovision.com note that the IMF had said, in its latest World Economic Outlook Report, that Venezuela’s “hyperinflation” would speed...
Defending The Interests Of The People
It’s 100-posts-in-five-days week, so here’s a post from longtime reader and only occasional poster Guido Núñez-Mujica. You’d guess that having electricity 24/7 would be something El Pueblo might...
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