When we were bachaqueros
Back in the mid 1990s, my dad came up with a smart new strategy to keep the small grocery store he and mom ran on Margarita Island fully stocked. It never occurred to anyone to demonize him for it.
Life
Coleteo Chronicles: Nail vs. Whitebread on CBC
Our very own Juan C. Nagel went up against Mark Weisbrot on CBC today. Viriginia López was along for the ride. Good fun!
Patria. Muerte. Book club.
El Club de Libros de Caracas Chronicles sigue creciendo. Para nuestra segunda edición, vamos con Patria o Muerte, la nueva novela de Alberto Barrera Tyszka. En español.
A lesson from Borges
In letting the press into his home to chronicle his day, Julio Borges shows other opposition politicians how to create that rarest of political commodities: empathy.
Únete a Caracas Chronicles: Buscamos Webmaster Técnico
Caracas Chronicles está buscando un webmaster técnico experto en Wordpress. Chamba ideal para un techie puesto-pilas que tenga 10 horas a la semana que dedicarle.
ANTV, RIP
On New Year's Eve, the government strips the National Assembly's TV station of all its equipment, and rolls its broadcasting onto VTV. Lindo.
Nos Expropiaron Hasta el 31 de Diciembre
Today ought to be a day for posting about 12 grapes and midnight luggage-toting strolls, not Christian friggin' Zerpa. If I had any choice in the matter, that's what I'd be writing about. But I don't, so I won't.
Who Should be On The Bs.1,000 Bank Note?
Here's your chance to nominate people for the front of the bolivar bill, and places or things for the back.
What's the 45,475th stripe to a tiger?
Rather than the voters, it will be a tribunal that has never ruled against the government that will decide who sits in the National Assembly. It's a dangerous move.
Neoliberalism in Unlikely Places
The list of Petrostates that respond to mounting deficits by cutting fuel subsidies just grew by one. One big one.
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