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May 5, 2008

In Venezuela, it's not so bad living under a bridge

by Quico

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Beginner's Guide to the Chávez Era

Recent posts

  • Say it loud, Boris!  - Quico
  • Not exactly ambiguous if you ask me  - Quico
  • Love that rodent  - Katy
  • Your strong bolívars at work  - Katy
  • There's no accountability without accounting  - Quico

Blogs in English

The Devil's Poop: Miguel Octavio's comprehensive Venezuelan news blog

Daniel's Blog: The view from Ruritania

Ibsen Martínez on PostGlobal: In English!

Venezuela 101: Fun rants.

Global Voices Online: Worldwide blog roundup: Venezuela page.

PMBComments: Former PDVSA director Pedro Mario Burelli's DC-based blog

Feathers's Blog: A loyal reader takes up the habit

Alex Beech's Blog: Playwright's corner

OilWars: Most active English-language chavista blog.

21st Century Socialism: Calvin Tucker's cybershrine to chavismo and the Soviet model.

Chase me ladies: Just for laughs...

Links in English

VenEconomy: Venezuela's leading bilingual business magazine, and Quico's former employer.

El Universal in English: Not very well translated news from EUD.

Google News: Top Venezuela stories.

The Daily Journal: Venezuela's only English-language newspaper, under new, pro-government management.

Miami Herald: Venezuela Page.

Financial Times: Americas Page

Human Rights Watch: Venezuela Page

Amnesty International: Venezuela Page

Francisco Rodríguez @ Wesleyan: Top resource for economic research into the impact of the Chávez era

Organization of American States: Venezuela Page

Venezuela Information Office: Our tax-bolivars at work - government-run pro-Chávez blog aimed at the US

Venezuelanalysis.com: Most sophisticated pro-Chávez site.

Law of the Land

A documentary contrasting the experiences of two Venezuelan farms taken over in the name of the revolution.

Venezuela 2003 - Spanish with English Subtitles. Produced by Francisco Toro, Directed by Megan Folsom.


Click to watch full screen
Running time: 60 minutes.

Blogs in Spanish

Venezuela Real: My favorite news and opinion digest.

Chávez para Españoles: Julio Rivas Pita makes sense of chavismo for the peninsular set.

Los Cuadernos Azul y Marrón: Vicente Ulive-Schnell's cantankerous rambling.

Radar de los Barrios: Chuo Torrealba's innovative innitiative on Caracas's shantytowns.

...y todo lo demás: Klaus Meyer's stylish political blog.

Ana Julia Jatar's Blog: Wonkish stuff

Webarticulista Collective opposition opinion blog

Links in Spanish

Noticiero Digital: News and opinion digest, together with extremist oppo bulletin board.

Noticias 24: Same idea as Noticiero Digital, with nicer web design.

TalCual: Newspaper edited by the legendary Teodoro Petkoff. Subscription required and worth it.

El Universal: "Serious" Caracas daily, strongly opposition minded.

El Nacional: The other "serious" Caracas daily, strongly opposition minded.

Globovision: Opposition run 24 hour news station. Text news free, Windows Media Video by subscription.

Union Radio Noticas: News portal and streaming audio.

Google News: Venezuela portal.

Ultimas Noticias: Tabloid edited by Eleazar Díaz Rangel. Chávez-friendly. Subscription.

Descifrado: Opposition gossip site. Some items free, others by subscription.

Notiven: News digest + links to dozens of Venezuelan newspapers.

Urru.org: Massive oppo archive.

E-lecciones: Fascinating selection of polling power points, international observer reports, and other election related stuff.

Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias State news agency: all chavista propaganda all the time.

Aporrea.org: Website of the Asamblea Popular Revolucionaria. Militant pro-Chávez site, occasionally critical of the government.

VTV - Canal Ocho: State TV. Hardcore propaganda. Live WindowsMedia work only sometimes.

Panorama: Maracaibo newspaper, privately owned but aggressively pro-Chávez.

teleSUR: Hemispheric arm of the chavista propaganda machine.

Queremos Elegir: Venezuela's original citizen-participation NGO.

Viejas Fotos Actuales: Fun archive of historical pictures, films and audio recordings.

Provea: One of Venezuela's two most respected human rights' NGOs.

Cofavic: The other one of Venezuela's two most respected human rights' NGOs.

Human Rights Watch: Venezuela Page

Central Bank of Venezuela: Good starting point for economic and monetary data.

Finance Ministry: data.

El Librito Azul: Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela - 1999.

2007

The Year in Review

Contact us directly

Quico: caracaschronicles at fastmail.fm

Katy: katycaracas at hotmail.com

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Powerpoint Presentations

Inflation pressures for dummies

Cowing retailers for dummies

Microeconomics of shortages for dummies

The "Bono del Sur" for dummies

Real appreciation for dummies

NPR

Quico's June 2003 interview on On the Media

2006 Presidential Election

Chávez Re-election Blog: Katy documents the government's use of public resources for Chávez's partisan advantage. Ojo Electoral: Preliminary electoral observation report.

Surveys vs. Official Results
Official results in detail

2007 Constitutional Reform Referendum

Full pre-referendum poll chart


Consultores 21 on likely result by turnout:


Datanalisis on political self identification


Official CNE results in detail (includes only 87% of voting tables.)

MP3 Interviews

Francisco Rodríguez on Venezuela's Economic Collapse Jonathan DiJohn Casts Doubt on the Resource Curse

Weil

Caracas Chronicles
My favorite cartoonist's website.

Perfect Satire

Rogues' Gallery

Rogues\
"...he's a brother..."
-Chávez on Saddam

"We have the same political vision."
-Chávez on Bashar Al-Assad.

"I feel I have met a brother and trench mate after meeting Chávez."
-Ahmadinejad on Chávez

"You are and always will be a true freedom warrior."
-Chávez to Mugabe

"...a friend and brother." -Chávez on Qaddafi

"Here, I've got a new friend and together we'll form a team, a go-ahead team. I thank you, Alexander, for solidarity and we've come here to demonstrate our solidarity."
-Chávez on Lukashenko

"I am only a soldier in this battle. Fidel is our president. If we had to name a president of the world with enough powers to set it right, it would be Fidel. I believe in one decade he could set the world right."
-Chávez on Fidel Castro

Blog Archive

  • ▼ 2008 (122)
    • ▼ May 25 - June 1 (2)
      • Say it loud, Boris!
      • Not exactly ambiguous if you ask me
    • ► May 18 - May 25 (7)
      • Love that rodent
      • Your strong bolívars at work
      • There's no accountability without accounting
      • Care to explain, Mr. Gott?
      • Over the radar, under the radar
      • The nightmare that is INTI
      • Imperdible
    • ► May 11 - May 18 (7)
      • The fallout
      • They're real ... and they're spectacular
      • Obsessions make the man
      • The crazy is strong
      • SSOT? Maybe. Criminal conspirator? Definitely.
      • Chávez and Correa give the game away
      • Gather around, kiddies: grandpa's a gonna tell a s...
    • ► May 4 - May 11 (6)
      • "Broader and deeper"
      • A debate about nothing
      • Dept. of Magical Language
      • New template
      • Dept. of Luz Pa'la Calle
      • In Venezuela, it's not so bad living under a bridg...
    • ► April 27 - May 4 (8)
      • A Euro-Oil Peg?
      • PSUV loses London
      • No means no
      • Chávez, can you spare $20 million?
      • Crazy Polar Bear Chronicles
      • Binge and purge
      • The false promise of food security
      • Rent-seeking as a Livelihood Strategy
    • ► April 20 - April 27 (6)
      • The calm before the storm
      • Compare and Contrast
      • Another one bites the dust
      • The Trouble with ALBA
      • Piñata! Piñata!
      • Got five minutes?
    • ► April 13 - April 20 (8)
      • Everything I know about Chavista geostrategic thin...
      • Red goes the neighborhood
      • Expropriation by any other name...
      • Six degrees of Hugo Chávez
      • Everybody Already Knows Everything About the Ander...
      • Confessions of a dangerous mind
      • Newsweek's Credibility Tanks
      • Right-hand Column overhaul
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      • Six years on: Usón's April 11th
      • Mark & Doug's excellent Venezuelan adventure
      • Media Terrorism Chronicles...
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      • Reality and Discourse
      • The Economics of Quítate Tú Pa'Ponerme Yo
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