April 21, 2011
This Blog has Moved
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Sorry, folks, only archives here. Check out the new blog at CaracasChronicles.com
September 27, 2010
Major Technical Problems
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We're now experiencing major technical problems due to the traffic spike last night. Apparently, CANTV is not linking to Wordpress blogs...
Back on Blogger - CANTV will not link to Wordpress Blogs
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We're back on Blogger out of sheer desperation. Wordpress is inaccessible from Venezuelan CANTV servers. (What is this friggin' Iran...
February 15, 2010
This site has gone to sleep...
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The dormant site will remain online in case you need the archives. For updates, check out the brand new site on: CaracasChronicles.com
February 14, 2010
Beginner's Guide the Chavez Era
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Why a Beginner's Guide? First, caveat lector: it's surprisingly tough to find insightful material on Venezuela online. Wild oversta...
December 21, 2009
Supermassive
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Quico says: I'm still not over Chávez's speech in Copenhagen last week. It's been a long time since Hugo Chávez has sent my blo...
December 16, 2009
Big Oil has landed: Hugo Chávez in Copenhagen
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Quico and Juan Cristobal say: What do you think would happen if the head of one of the world's five largest oil companies started lect...
December 15, 2009
Ten Years on From The Stillborn Constitution
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Quico says: ...rumors, partly fueled by Aristóbulo's keynote address to the National Assembly, are now heavy that Chávez is considering...
Where the Maisanta Bodies Are Buried
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Quico says: Venezuela is far from the first country where an autocratic regime has used its economic muscle to systematically punish disside...
ME-O bids adieu-o
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Juan Cristobal says: Chile held the first round of Presidential voting yesterday, and since I'm married to the place Quico asked me to...
December 14, 2009
Book 'em!
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Quico says: As I think about it, the truly newsworthy aspect of the jailing of the judge who freed Eligio Cedeño isn't that they jailed...
Siempre queda por caer
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Quico says: The decision to jail judge María Lourdes Afiuni, following a bizarre series of events that saw Hugo Chávez flip out after the j...
December 11, 2009
Making believers out of us...
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Quico says: The Latinbarómetro Poll, published by The Economist, always has an eyebrow-raising stat or two to offer. This year's study...
Technoutopian Chronicles
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Quico says: If citizens' ability to reason together on issues of common concern in the public sphere is the cornerstone of real democra...
December 10, 2009
Caracas Chronicles 2.0: Sneak Preview
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Quico and Juan Cristóbal say: The new software platform for Caracas Chronicles is finally here! After several months of intense work, the ...
December 9, 2009
Mental Health View From Quico's Window
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Northeasternnnnn!!! (Taken 10 a.m. I'm actually a recent-enough immigrant to Quebec to get excited by this kind of thing...)
Subverting Chavismo's Discursive Standard
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Quico says: Judging from the reaction, rather a lot of you misinterpreted my last post as some kind of woolly call to hold a nice, reasonab...
December 8, 2009
Dictatorship means never having to say "the reason is..."
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Quico says: One thing all critics of the Chávez regime seem to agree on is that democracy in Venezuela is pretty much dead. But what exactl...
December 7, 2009
The three-legged stool
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Juan Cristóbal says: Lately, this story about the 1988 Referendum that ended the Pinochet dictatorship keeps coming to mind. (Translated fr...
December 4, 2009
Mental health break for the weekend
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Juan Cristóbal says: - It's easy to forget, but before we were oligarchs, squalid ones and betrayers of the homeland, we were simply - ...
Rules for Subversives
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Quico says: "Opposition" has become an obsolete concept in Venezuelan politics. Opposition is what you do to governments capable ...
December 3, 2009
Chavez throws hissy fit, your savings lose 15% of their value
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Quico says: Reuters is reporting that the parallel bolivar plunged as low as Bs.6.2 to the dollar today in response to Chávez's bank n...
Intervention!
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Juan Cristóbal says: - A reader in Caracas told us yesterday that he was disappointed in Caracas Chronicles. He usually came to CC to find ...
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