Ideal for Rounding Up Dissidents
You can’t make this stuff up. Above is ملعب هوجو تشافيز – Hugo Chávez Stadium to you and me – in Benina, Libya.
Life
Chávez starts to pay the price for that Bolivar sword replica UPDATED
Even longstanding Chávez ball-coddler Nikolas Kozloff is appalled by his chumminess with Ghaddafi… Update: Now long time friend-of-the-house Al Giordano piles on – taking it out, bizarrely, on...
Nausea
The thought that the man responsible for this has been honored and lionized in my own country fills me with a kind of dread-soaked rage that feels curiously...
Revolutionary Priorities
The blue bars are the government’s 2011 spending budget. The orange bar is our estimate of the opportunity cost of selling gas below the world price.
Españolification Chronicles
So I’ve decided that the way I’m going to get all you deadbeats to check out CronicasDeCaracas.net is by posting most new material in Spanish only over the...
Over in Spanish
Alejandro Tarre has a go at the desbandada from Mubarak’s ranks.
"Rangel Silva es un gocho A-1"
…that, at least, is how convicted felon Moises Maiónica sees it. As our favorite Narco-general takes the dais at the National Assembly, take a trip down memory lane...
The real meaning of February 14th
From today, we’ve asked Alejandro Tarre – of the invaluable AlejandroTarre.com – to contribute more actively to Caracas Chronicles. Today, he explains why February 14th should be about...
Give us a hand up, yeah?
So, we’re finding out what Miguel and Daniel have known all along: building an audience for the Spanish doppleganger to an English blog about Venezuela is not so...
Mubarak : 2011 :: Chávez : 2012 ?
It’s become the opposition’s favorite parlor game: Could Chávez get Mubaraked next year? I think it could happen…but in an odd way. To see why, you have to...
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