Dream Thread
So as we process the bizarre, dream-like inaugural-in-absentia on display in Caracas today, it made me wonder: have you ever had an actual dream with Chávez in it?...
What do you call a problem like Maduro?
January 10th creates a conundrum for us at Caracas Chronicles. On the one hand, we share most of your indignation. Maduro’s term ends today, but the TSJ has...
Annals of communicational sausage-making
If you’re interested in how the Revolution is Broadcast, this leaked letter from Information Minister Ernesto Villegas to Hugo Chávez is pretty interesting. The letter provides a detailed...
This is what Capriles is thinking
OK, so we all know this is a kind of coup. Keeping Maduro on as the not-encargado-and-yet-obviously-in-charge (a.k.a., de facto) president is about as legitimate in my eyes...
Surely Bertolt Brecht could not have done better...
A few years ago, Teodoro Petkoff made audiences guffaw with his bon mot about how, more and more, the Chávez government treats the Constitution as though it were...
The TSJ rubber-stamps the Maduro doctrine (Updated)
After three and a half hours of waiting, the president of the Venezuelan Supreme Court Luisa Estela Morales has declared in a press conference that President Hugo Chavez...
Young and Defenseless
by Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez “As Constituições são como as mulheres, elas são mais férteis, enquanto elas são mais violadas.” Getulio Vargas, Brazilian Dictator. First things first: that the government...
Taking Stock
To get a sense of just how needless the constitutional crisis developing in Venezuela really is, let’s just step back from the play-by-play and take stock of where...
Food sovereignty is a mere formality
For quite some time, the Chavernment has sold us the premise that Venezuela is pretty strong in food sovereignty. But in the last few weeks, the wave of...
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