5,000 posts of solitude
This is Caracas Chronicles’ 5,000th post. I don’t know what that means, frankly, just like I don’t know what this blog means. I just know I enjoy writing...
Life
Small Walls
And now for something completely different: my wife Kanako’s first show in Caracas opens this Sunday, October 9th, at 11 a.m., at the Parque Cultural Hacienda La Trinidad....
Castaways at a funeral
Now that the Capybara has compared us to La Hojilla, I’ve been thinking about good’ol CAP. Acción Democrática, the party he belonged to most of his life before...
Omigod, Omigod, Omigod!
Less than three! Less than three!
As if Venezuela didn't have enough loss-making state owned companies of its own...
…now it’s taking on Uruguay’s, as well. Sigh…you’d think one thing we wouldn’t need to import is public sector money pits. [Hat tip: Setty, who else?]
Math Fail
So, according to El Mundo, Venezuela spends some $3 million per day on diesel for electrical generation, since 200,000 barrels of the stuff is being devoted to thermoelectric...
Global Barrel of Laughs
If you don’t already check Setty’s blog compulsively, here’s another reason to. Setty’s especially good at ferreting out online material that ought to be getting much more exposure...
Nine Years
On September 20th, 2002, the very first Caracas Chronicles post hit the interwebs. Today, just like back then, …the slow-motion train-wreck that is Venezuela under Chávez is full...
Johann Hari busted for the wrong thing
I won’t pretend otherwise: I found British columnist and PSF-extraordinaire Johann Hari’s fake-quote-fueled disgrace (complete with having to drop the “award-winning” from his CV) especially gratifying. Busted for plagiarizing...
主權? Try 賣淫
From an AVN story about a meeting Hugo Chávez held yesterday with the Chinese: “Chávez … explained that Chinese banks give out loans to Venezuela and, in exchange,...
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