You like us, you really like us!
Thanks readers. Our 100-post challenge is driving us slightly batty, but readership yesterday was the highest it’s been all year. Seems like you’re diggin’ it. Let’s keep it...
The View From Your Window
Den Bosch, The Netherlands – 11:00 a.m. (To participate, send the View from Your Window, along with the location and the time the photo was taken, to caracaschronicles...
Fighting The Last War
To hear Teodoro Petkoff put it, either Chávez Econguru Giordani plain old lied about having spent $5.5 billion “fixing” the electric crisis, or the money was royally wasted....
Not the pop singer
Our Defense Minister is some General called Carlos Mata. No, not the ’80s galán. This one is a scary motherfucker. Check out this interview. The money quote: “One of...
Keiko-ño...de su Padre!
No, Juan. En serio, no. No way. Some things are beyond lesser-of-two-evils thinking. We’re talking really about some rock bottom, basic stuff here. Really bedrock human values. Keiko...
The Overkill Evening News
I was kind of shocked to read in a Globovision.com note that the IMF had said, in its latest World Economic Outlook Report, that Venezuela’s “hyperinflation” would speed...
Keiko-jones...
It was easy to feel for Peruvians by reading the Twitter feeds from people commenting on the, ahem, unsavory choice they are faced with in the 2nd round...
The Underpaid Intern Defense
Why, on an episode of Kico Bautista’s Buenas Noches show back in september 2009, did Globovisión start running text messages along the bottom of the screen not even the...
Defending The Interests Of The People
It’s 100-posts-in-five-days week, so here’s a post from longtime reader and only occasional poster Guido Núñez-Mujica. You’d guess that having electricity 24/7 would be something El Pueblo might...
Santos Does His Job; Venezuelan Reactionaries Blanche
It’s fun to see the horrified responses in bits of Venezuela’s further-right-wing blogosphere at Juan Manuel Santos’s newfound partnership with Chávez. Some of these guys just can’t believe...
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