November 12, 2009

Chávez names his price

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Juan Cristóbal says: - This buried little nugget in state-owned wire service ABN is startling in its honesty. In it, Under-Secretary Franc...
November 11, 2009

Not red enough for VTV: Squalid media and revolutionary discontent

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Juan Cristóbal says: Many of Venezuela's public servants are mad. They, the red-wearing base of the Revolution, are mad because they do...

Villa del Tukiti

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Quico says: Don't miss Mac Margolis's epic mauling of Villa del Cine, Hugo's vanity movie studio, in the current issue Newswee...
November 10, 2009

The Universal Yawn

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Quico says: The really remarkable thing about the reaction to Chávez's latest obscene little warriorist hissy fit against Colombia is ...

The view from your window: Parque Central

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Caracas, Venezuela. 11 am. Send us the View from Your Window: caracaschronicles at fastmail dot fm, or nageljuan at gmail dot com. Please en...
November 9, 2009

War games

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Juan Cristóbal says: - Once in a while, Quico and I get emails from readers in Colombia asking about Hugo Chávez’s latest antics vis-a-vis ...

The view from your window: Chicago

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Chicago, Illinois, USA. 4 pm. Send us the View from Your Window: caracaschronicles at fastmail dot fm, or nageljuan at gmail dot com. Please...
November 7, 2009

The expected begins to happen

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Juan Cristóbal says: - Courageous Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez was briefly kidnapped from the streets of Havana by unidentified thugs and be...
November 6, 2009

Owning up to one's bad calls

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Juan Cristóbal says: - Barely a week after we were declaring the Honduras crisis all but over, we get news the agreement has collapsed . N...

Game Over

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Quico says: Over on BoingBoing, loyal reader and one-time avid gamer Guido Nuñez Mujica has this lovely, meaty rant on the government'...

The view from your window: Asunción

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Asunción, Paraguay. 1 pm. Send us the View from Your Window: caracaschronicles at fastmail dot fm, or nageljuan at gmail dot com. Please ens...
November 5, 2009

Loser boasts of taking from winner

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Juan Cristóbal says: - This video, secretly taped, shows the loser in last year's election for Caracas Metropolitan Mayor, chavista Ari...

The view from your window: Addis Ababa

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2:30 PM. Send us the View from Your Window: caracaschronicles at fastmail dot fm, or nageljuan at gmail dot com. Plea...
November 4, 2009

The Huffington Post ...

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Juan Cristóbal says: - ... discusses harassment of gays and lesbians at the hands of Venezuelan government goons. Check it out - I wonder ...

BCVSA and The Exchange Rate that Must Not Be Named

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Quico says: Two and a half years ago, when Chávez announced PDVSA would start manufacturing shoes and selling beans and I wrote this snarky...
November 3, 2009

Reproduced Verbatim

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The North Korean State (what other kind is there?) News Agency says: National Seminar on Juche Idea Held in Venezuela Pyongyang, Nove...

What's happening in Táchira?

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Juan Cristóbal says: - The border is closed . Two National Guardsmen were murdered . Nine Colombians were murdered last week . What's g...

The view from your window: Montreal

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Montreal, QC, Canada. 31 October 2009, 5:00 pm. Send us the View from Your Window: caracaschronicles at fastmail dot fm, or nageljuan at gma...
November 2, 2009

Is Iberdrola scamming Venezuelan taxpayers?

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Juan Cristóbal says: Why does it cost 39% more than average for a Spanish company to build a power plant in Cumaná than anywhere else in th...

Headline of the Year

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Quico says: I dare you to click on this and not laugh. Go on, click . You laughed, didn't you? Oh sure, a second later you caught your...
October 30, 2009

The Real Winner in Honduras

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A longer version of this post appears on The New Republic's blog, The Plank. Juan Cristóbal and Quico say: The Honduran tragicomedy tha...

The view from your window: Reading

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Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. 10 AM. Send us the View from Your Window: caracaschronicles at fastmail dot fm, or nageljuan at gmail dot com. P...
October 28, 2009

Iberdrola and Elecnor supply the electricity to cook the books

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Juan Cristóbal says: - Venezuela is in the grips of an unprecedented electricity crisis, and much of it has to do with festering corruption...

Dear Editor

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Quico says: I was about to send this as an email to an editor who asked me to write something about Chávez's hypertrophied presidential...
October 27, 2009

Tell me how you budget and I'll tell you who you are

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Juan Cristóbal says: - Hugo Chávez's administration introduced a draft 2010 budget a few days ago. The project promises a whopping $84...
October 26, 2009

Chávez thinks you suck; you agree

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Quico says: As Chávez takes to blaming more and more of the nation's problems on you, the latest Datanalisis poll confirms it: 23.9% ...
October 23, 2009

Killing capital

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Quico says: Hernando de Soto's conception of "dead capital" is one of the genuinely intriguing ideas spawned by the developm...
October 22, 2009

Our future at fire-sale prices

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Juan Cristóbal says: - Not content with issuing debt to finance capital flight , as they did a few weeks ago, the Chávez administration rec...

What El Sistema teaches us about social policy

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Juan Cristóbal says: - The well-deserved, near-universal praise heaped on Venezuela's Youth Orchestra Program ("El Sistema")...

With no electricity, nobody can hear your cadenas

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Juan Cristóbal says: - The two short videos are fascinating. In a few short minutes, you can see Chávez the deranged (hiring "planes...
October 21, 2009

Your apartment is their heritage

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Quico says: Chavismo has surely entered its churrigueresque period when the government decrees a gas station as a protected historical sit...