Mental health break for the weekend
Juan Cristóbal says: – It’s easy to forget, but before we were oligarchs, squalid ones and betrayers of the homeland, we were simply – his invisible friends. I...
Life
Rules for Subversives
Quico says: “Opposition” has become an obsolete concept in Venezuelan politics. Opposition is what you do to governments capable of being opposed: those that see the practice of...
Chavez throws hissy fit, your savings lose 15% of their value
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 nationalization histrionics. Funny to think...
Intervention!
Juan Cristóbal says: – A reader in Caracas told us yesterday that he was disappointed in Caracas Chronicles. He usually came to CC to find information and solace,...
Picking up on new memes
Juan Cristóbal says: – Way back in the early days of 2005, Hugo Chávez declared himself a socialist. These were the lazy, hazy days of the post-Recall Referendum....
Annals of the Vulture Meat Guardianship Corporation
Juan Cristóbal says: – “I will be in any corner the fatherland demands me to be in, fulfilling my duty, fighting from my trench, backing the President and...
A useful illusion?
Quico says: Watching this video, I can’t decide if Ciudadanía Activa is performing a valuable civic service by keeping alive the pretense of constitutional government or if this...
Edo-what?
Juan Cristóbal says: – It’s not every day that you learn something about your own country from the New York Times. So do yourself a favor and don’t...
Hondurans go rogue
Juan Cristóbal says: – I should know better than to post about Honduras given how badly it went the last time, but here goes: by electing a President...
Fun with Skype
Juan Cristóbal says: – Ta-da-dun… ta-dun… I’m sitting in my ofice. It’s Friday afternoon. I’m waiting to finish a report, and the familiar Skype bell interrupts me. Damn,...
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