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...
Economy
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...
Volunteer Heaven!
The response to my Call for Volunteers last week has been amazing…so many dataheads, so little time! Thanks so much to everyone who’s written in. (And to those...
Volunteer as a Caracas Chronicles Research Intern!
CaracasChronicles is looking for volunteer data-heads to help carry out a unique research project ahead of the 2012 Presidential Elections. Parlez-vous Stata? Do you have 2 to 10...
New media is all you need
Last Sunday, Setty informed us that an important pipeline carrying natural gas from Colombia to Venezuela was bombed, possibly by the FARC. He said: “It’s a big deal...
The Targetting vs. Universality Debate
A key issue any future opposition government is going to have to deal with is a very old one in First World social policy, but one barely talked...
I'll see your 16,000 murders and raise you a meeting in Germany
Over on CronicasDeCaracas.net, even the legendarily equanimous MoraimaG can’t help but blow her top at Chávez’s waste-of-protoplasm-as-tourism-minister Alejandro Fleming Cabrera.
Even the government hates government
Whether it’s fixing potholes or keeping our streets safe, pumping our oil safely or distributing its rents fairly, there is simply very little our government gets right. Like...
The glut around the corner?
CNN is reporting that other countries are joining Saudi Arabia and raising crude production in light of the prolongued conflict in Libya. The list, as you can fathom,...
Could SENIAT be pulled alive from the wreckage?
Over in Spanish, Moraima thinks so.
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