Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Dec 1, 2009, 8:13 am
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 miss Simón Romero's article about the ...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Nov 30, 2009, 3:54 pm
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 yesterday in imperfect but legitimate elections, ...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Nov 30, 2009, 8:17 am
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, bad timing...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Nov 30, 2009, 7:39 am
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Nov 27, 2009, 12:06 am
Quico says: In case you haven't noticed, I have been struggling with writer's block for months. Ever since I came back from Venezuela and witnessed the deterioration in the conditions on the g...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Nov 25, 2009, 7:08 am
Quico says: It's a question people seem to ask me a lot outside Venezuela, and it came up again the other night, in a conversation with an old and dear friend of mine: "Now, I know you hate the g...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Nov 24, 2009, 8:22 pm
Juan Cristóbal says: - A few days ago, Venezuela's opposition announced with much fanfare it had finally reached an "agreement" on how to select candidates for the looming parliamentary elections...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Nov 24, 2009, 8:58 am
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Nov 22, 2009, 11:03 am
Quico says: I almost choked on my breakfast burrito this morning when I read Ian James's write-up for the AP of Chávez's lunatic little dithyramb to Carlos the Jackal the other day: Hugo Chav...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Nov 21, 2009, 9:02 am
Quico says: On the day after Bolibourgeois operator extraordinaire Ricardo Fernández Barrueco got shuffled off to a prison cell at Disip - Venezuela's secret police - the questions far outnumber ...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 9, 2009, 3:00 pm
Quico says: There's one thing monetary authorities need more than anything else: credibility. When a Central Bank chief commits to a policy goal, he has to make sure he has the tools at his dispos...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 8, 2009, 2:29 pm
Quico says: The imbecilities of Venezuela's Foreign Exchange Control Regime just keep piling up one on top of another, accumulating in layers that some future archeologist of macroeconomic incompe...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 8, 2009, 7:17 am
Quico says: OK, time for a thought experiment/parable. Welcome to Distorsiolandia, a land of simple rural folk where everyone works in agriculture. Distorsiolandia's economy is so simple, in fact...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 8, 2009, 5:30 am
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 7, 2009, 3:42 pm
Juan Cristóbal says: - We've discussed the insanity of the government's recent bond extravaganza here and here. The great Miguel summarizes the whole carnival here. What does the government ...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 7, 2009, 11:28 am
Juan Cristóbal says: - "It's hard to build socialism in this country."Wise words coming from the mouth of chavista apparatchik Aristóbulo Istúriz. Socialism is hard, he claims, because "state ...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 6, 2009, 8:26 pm
Quico says: Oh goody...an excellent excuse to make some powerpoint slides! And just keep in mind, while this is happening, the government is shutting down panaderías and auto parts store for - I shi...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 6, 2009, 4:30 pm
Juan Cristóbal says: - Our chavista readers complain that all our blog does is talk smack about the government nonstop. That's a fair criticism, so I decided to throw them a bone. Here is a vide...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 6, 2009, 3:00 pm
Juan Cristóbal says: In what the government is hailing as a positive development, the Chávez administration has just "sold" $5 billion worth of bonds in order to ease pressure on the black market ex...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 6, 2009, 7:13 am
Quico says: Teodoro Petkoff spills the beans today on Chávez's god-awful poll numbers these days. In the latest IVAD (Seijas) poll, Chávez gets whooped by two-to-one margins on all kinds of dome...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 6, 2009, 5:04 am
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 1, 2009, 10:52 am
Juan Cristóbal says: - There is one news item we have neglected and we really shouldn't have: Venezuelan students and political prisoners held a massive, successful hunger strike during the past ...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 1, 2009, 8:23 am
Quico says: There is one thing we can be sure about ahead of today’s oil-sector union elections: chavismo is going to win. Of the ten slates on the ballot, nine are broadly pro-Chávez. This should ...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Oct 1, 2009, 5:30 am
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 30, 2009, 7:57 am
Quico says: “Take Eligio Cedeño,” The Contact says, “to this day, I’ve never been able to figure out exactly how he fucked up.” We’re sitting in one of these swank East Side restaurants ...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 30, 2009, 6:00 am
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 29, 2009, 5:30 pm
... through their shadow foreign Minister (Milos Alcalay)." Chaderton is lying, and he knows it. Venezuela's opposition has been clear in rejecting the coup as well as Zelaya's ... to Ch�...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 29, 2009, 8:30 am
Juan Cristóbal says: The government's multi-billion dollar subsidy to the upper-middle classes, in the form of artificially cheap dollars, is an ongoing focus of this blog. This twisted social pr...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 29, 2009, 6:00 am
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 28, 2009, 2:30 pm
Juan Cristóbal says: When the government's "Media Responsibility Law" forced all radio stations to allocate five and a half hours of broadcasting per day to programming made by "independent natio...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 28, 2009, 6:02 am
Quico says: It's tempting to dismiss Rodrigo Sanz's revelation that Iran is collaborating with Venezuela in an effort to secure high grade Uranium in Santa Elena de Uairén as mere posturing, ...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 23, 2009, 1:02 pm
Quico says: So we're all supposed to be sad now that oppo radio-broadcaster Onda la Superestación has canceled Nelson Bocaranda's long-running political gossip show, "Los Runrunes de Nelson B...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 23, 2009, 5:30 am
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 22, 2009, 12:33 pm
Quico says: If the Chávez regime retains some patina of legitimacy in international circles beyond the know-nothing lefty fringe, that sense arises almost exclusively from one source: its electoral ...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 22, 2009, 9:01 am
Quico says: I've been in a bit of a funk, lately. What can I say? Caracas got me down this time. There's something about life in this incredibly hostile, constantly on-the-brink city that wear...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 22, 2009, 6:07 am
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 21, 2009, 3:25 pm
Juan Cristóbal says: - The soap opera continues. Hugo Chávez announced today that Manuel Zelaya was back in Honduras. In reality, he is hiding in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa which, if I...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 21, 2009, 10:56 am
Quico says: This one is straight from the Annals of News Whose Relevance To Us is Downright Depressing. TNR, in an article about the weird confluence of interests between Chinese hippie cultists and I...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 21, 2009, 5:30 am
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 18, 2009, 2:13 pm
Juan Cristóbal says: - The New York Times has an excellent review of the new book of photography, "Capitolio," by Christopher Anderson. The images are haunting, and the review itself is not to be mis...
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Emigdio D. posted an article on Caracas Chronicles - Sep 18, 2009, 8:15 am
Juan Cristóbal says: - Few things thrill Hugo Chávez more than seeing a leftist win an election. Whether it's in El Salvador, Ecuador, Bolivia or Spain, he can't help gushing over any victor...
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