Fun with Skype
Juan Cristóbal says: – Ta-da-dun… ta-dun… I’m sitting in my ofice. It’s Friday afternoon. I’m waiting to finish a report, and the familiar Skype bell interrupts me. Damn,...
Juan Cristóbal says: – Ta-da-dun… ta-dun… I’m sitting in my ofice. It’s Friday afternoon. I’m waiting to finish a report, and the familiar Skype bell interrupts me. Damn,...
Quico says: So the new software for Caracas Chronicles 2.0, including its custom-coded, state-of-the-art Community Powered Comments system, is now in testing. And we’re looking for volunteers to...
Juan Cristóbal says: – Hugo Chávez’s administration introduced a draft 2010 budget a few days ago. The project promises a whopping $84 billion in spending that somehow manages...
Juan Cristóbal says: – The well-deserved, near-universal praise heaped on Venezuela’s Youth Orchestra Program (“El Sistema”) is a source of pride for all Venezuelans. And yet, reading the...
Juan Cristóbal says: In what the government is hailing as a positive development, the Chávez administration has just “sold” $5 billion worth of bonds in order to ease...
Quico says: There is one thing we can be sure about ahead of today’s oil-sector union elections: chavismo is going to win. Of the ten slates on the...
Quico says: “Take Eligio Cedeño,” The Contact says, “to this day, I’ve never been able to figure out exactly how he fucked up.” We’re sitting in one of...
Juan Cristóbal says: The government’s multi-billion dollar subsidy to the upper-middle classes, in the form of artificially cheap dollars, is an ongoing focus of this blog. This twisted...
Quico says: It’s tempting to dismiss Rodrigo Sanz’s revelation that Iran is collaborating with Venezuela in an effort to secure high grade Uranium in Santa Elena de Uairén...
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