A question for our enlightened readers
I’ve been mulling a post about Venezuela’s centuries-old claim on the lands west of the Essequibo river. But I have a confession to make: the whole topic bores...
EFE suckered. Again.
We should be clear: a growing economy and an entirely predictable cancer-sympathy spike have given Chávez’s popularity a real bump in the polls. But Spanish news agency EFE’s decision...
OAP's exercise in legacy sullying comes to an end
So, one down. Oswaldo Álvarez Paz has put an end to his behind-the-ambulance primary run. That’s as good a time as any to update our Oppo Field guide.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime to be labeled an imperialist lackey in 3...2...
UNODC’s first global study on homicide has just been published. Save for gang-ravaged Honduras and El Salvador, nobody comes close to Venezuela. And in South America? Eat our...
Who will be the Steve Jobs of the CCT?
So I had a fun back-and-forth with P. Challenger in comments about what it might take to end Venezuela’s insane – I really don’t think there’s another word...
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...
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....
Worst. Social policy. Ever!
Imagine a candidate who went to the country with this message: Compatriotas! When I am president, I will finally spread the oil wealth fairly. What I’ll do is,...
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...
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