2011 in review...
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for Caracas Chronicles. Here’s an excerpt: London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. This blog was viewed about 650,000...
Life
A wish for the new year
Merry Christmas everyone.
Full Confidence
Venezuela’s official condolences to the DPRK on the loss of their capital-L Leader were a bit underwhelming. Sure, Chávez’s expression of “full confidence” that the tinpottiest of all...
"A city with wartime levels of violence but no war."
Dorothy Kronick strikes again. First this, now this all-too-rare-in-foreign-media meditation on just how weird Venezuela’s urban violence epidemic is, with bloodletting on a scale normally associated with war spreading despite...
The article that finally made Julio Borges's head explode
Give Julio Borges his due. When the government promised to build 153,000 new homes in 2011, he knew he had his work cut out for him. Facing the...
Hitchens on Hugo
Christopher Hitchens is dead. Love him or hate him, man, did he have a way with words. His excoriation of Hugo Chávez is something to remember, well worth...
PISA-tarios
In case you did not know, the government of Miranda recently applied the PISA educational quality test to students in its schools. Longtime reader and commenter Kepler has...
Today's Must-Read
…is Tom O’Donnell’s latest on the Chinese frustration over chavista foot-dragging on Faja projects. The gap between the conventional wisdom and the real story here is especially wide....
A little break
The holidays are upon us, and here in Chile it coincides with the end of the school year and the beginning of summer vacation. So I’m a bit...
¿Celacomió? Absolutamente não, meu amigo.
First off, credit where credit is due: chavista diplomacy deserves real kudos for some great optics at the Celac Launch summit still going on in Caracas today. Those...
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