The Real Chávez is The One Backing Gaddafi
Sooner or later, the balance of evidence becomes overwhelming: the real Chávez is the one convinced Gaddafi is facing a “campaign of lies” and keeps raving about wild gringo...
Life
New Blood: Raul Aular
A big focus over the coming months will be broadening out the writing stable beyond just Juan and I by reaching out to new talent. We’re looking for...
Drowning in a sea of zeros
Over in Spanish, it’s the Calculator 1, El Nacional 0.
Ideal for Rounding Up Dissidents
You can’t make this stuff up. Above is ملعب هوجو تشافيز – Hugo Chávez Stadium to you and me – in Benina, Libya.
Chávez starts to pay the price for that Bolivar sword replica UPDATED
Even longstanding Chávez ball-coddler Nikolas Kozloff is appalled by his chumminess with Ghaddafi… Update: Now long time friend-of-the-house Al Giordano piles on – taking it out, bizarrely, on...
Nausea
The thought that the man responsible for this has been honored and lionized in my own country fills me with a kind of dread-soaked rage that feels curiously...
Revolutionary Priorities
The blue bars are the government’s 2011 spending budget. The orange bar is our estimate of the opportunity cost of selling gas below the world price.
Españolification Chronicles
So I’ve decided that the way I’m going to get all you deadbeats to check out CronicasDeCaracas.net is by posting most new material in Spanish only over the...
Over in Spanish
Alejandro Tarre has a go at the desbandada from Mubarak’s ranks.
"Rangel Silva es un gocho A-1"
…that, at least, is how convicted felon Moises Maiónica sees it. As our favorite Narco-general takes the dais at the National Assembly, take a trip down memory lane...
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