The Week in Bullets
Fake it until you make it? Nah We went all crazy on Monday when once again the government announced there was going to be a minister rotation. The ministers...
Fake it until you make it? Nah We went all crazy on Monday when once again the government announced there was going to be a minister rotation. The ministers...
(A few years ago, a group of academics and practitioners got together and looked at the types of policies that most countries with high growth experiences had implemented....
Populism has been the driving force behind both our political landscape and our economic misfortunes. This trait has marked the misguided economic policies of several administrations, with...
A few years ago I was invited to write the first OpEd piece of my life by the Venezuelan newspaper El Globo. I was in graduate school at the time,...
Whoops. The gas subsidy still sucks, but this post was wrong. Explanation below. Venezuelans have a hard time understanding the crazed extremes of mindless waste generated by our...
This U.S. Senator just blocked the targeted sanctions on Venezuelan human rights violators because she loves CITGO money too much.
OK, opposition politicians, listen up. Here at Caracas Chronicles we enjoy beating up on you from time to time, but you might be surprised to learn that we don’t...
Bad Ink Caracas We couldn’t help ourselves, and had to join in on the free tattoo story. In the end, the whole event made sense to us when...
Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of commercial oil production in Venezuela. On July 31st 1914, the Zumaque I oil well in Mene Grande, Zulia, became the country’s first oil...
A special investigation by Kanako Noda. This post is available in Japanese here. 日本語でも読めます。 Este artículo está disponible en español aquí. The four Japanese students look hot and excited...
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