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Venezuela's Prison Shame
Since 2000, Venezuela’s prison capacity has grown by 1,200 places, thanks to the expansion of Yare Penitenciary and the construction of a new jail in Coro. In the...
How to Cut the Murder Rate in Half by 2016
If you’re a believer in the Three Bullet-Point Transition (TM), you know that making deep inroads into Venezuela’s outrageously high murder rate is one of the things any...
Can you fall in love with a graph?
Brilliant stuff. Here is the original source. Notice how Venezuela has the largest per capita carbon emissions in South America. Notice, also, that two of the disproportionately high-emissions...
A Spanish-language blog roll call
Over at cronicasdecaracas.net, we’re trying to compile a list of the best Spanish-language opposition-minded Venezuelan blogs. Got any suggestions? Sound off on the comments board.
$%*& my Japanese wife says
My wife laughed hard at the tragic, yet still unmistakably funny story of the dozens of high-society Venezuelans coming back from a throw-the-house-out-the-window, no-expenses-spared Punta Cana wedding with...
Finding the story in our squalid news
One of the things that I find most disappointing about the Venezuelan press is how they frequently miss the important aspects of the stories they pretend to report....
A Manifesto for the Spanish-language blog
Over on CaracasChronicles-eE.com, Quico just posted an absolutely untranslatable manifesto of what exactly we’re aiming for with the blog in Spanish, filled with Orwell quotes, coños, and vainas....
Introducing Caracas Chronicles en Español
Almost from the moment this blog launched – all the way back in the pre-YouTube internet Paleozoic of 2002 – people have been asking me when I’ll launch...
Dismantling Allan Brewer-Carías
My review of Allan Brewer-Carías’s simply unreadable brick, Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela, is now up on TNR’s Book Review site. Fun bit: Perhaps Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela should be...
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