The real meaning of February 14th
From today, we’ve asked Alejandro Tarre – of the invaluable AlejandroTarre.com – to contribute more actively to Caracas Chronicles. Today, he explains why February 14th should be about...
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Give us a hand up, yeah?
So, we’re finding out what Miguel and Daniel have known all along: building an audience for the Spanish doppleganger to an English blog about Venezuela is not so...
Mubarak : 2011 :: Chávez : 2012 ?
It’s become the opposition’s favorite parlor game: Could Chávez get Mubaraked next year? I think it could happen…but in an odd way. To see why, you have to...
Mubarak should have called Fidel
I woke up this morning wanting to write a post on how much the situation in Egypt resembles the situation in Venezuela in 2002 and 2003. Back then,...
Now we know what Marquina had on Yon Goicoechea
It wasn’t his right wing; it was his right hook! ps: check out VTV’s hilarious slide-show on the episode, which makes PSUV assemblyman Henry Ventura out to be...
Get yourself a Gravatar!
Do you want your comments to show up next to a nice little identifying image you’ve picked yourself instead of one of these silly angular things – ?...
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.
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