Ten years blogging the Chávez era
“These days, what I find hardest to convey to my friends who live outside Venezuela is this strong undercurrent of farce that now permeates public life here.” Quico’s...
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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...
Savage Discourse Redux
Juan’s latest is as good an excuse as any to repost my partial translation of J.M. Briceño Guerrero’s 1979 screed El Discurso Salvaje. It’s not an easy read, and...
Money for nothing and your lights for free
There really should be a word for it: the systematic mismatch between the things that cause outrage in our public sphere and the ones that cripple our society’s...
Just 3.5% in kickbacks?! Man, those Navantia guys are tough...
What does it say about Venezuela that when I read this story about Spanish shipbuilder Navantia paying €42 million in kickbacks for the contract to build those eight...
A peek inside PGV
To my chronic frustration, we never get a proper chance to look inside Venezuelan prison walls. That’s why Ross Kemp’s Extreme World documentary on crime in Venezuela deserves such...
The "consultation" panacea
The Chavernment has announced that it will carry out a “National Consultation for a Safe Coexistance”, as part of its most recent security program. This will eventually translate...
The Family vs. Society?
Yet another runner in the race to explain the old imponderable: ¿Por Qué es Que Estamos Como Estamos? In a famous study half a century ago, the political scientist Edward Banfield coined...
Ad War Update, continued
The Chavez camp has decided to push the narrative of inevitability is its latest one-minute spot, focusing on footage of its rallys and what they called “…the most...
Bad education
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I talk about the issue nobody wants to discuss. Because we’re all too busy obsessing about grainy videos and envelopes full of cash.
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