Hugo Chávez is dead
Hugo Chávez, who transformed Venezuela from a deeply flawed democracy into a nearly flawless autocracy, is dead at 58. My thoughts on the way Fidel Castro shaped his...
Liveblog: Vice-President Maduro speaks
The gist: There were no big decisions announced, but this speech will surely be remembered for the delirious bit at the start where Maduro takes my post from...
Caracas Chronicles, The Book
It’s a project long in the making. Blogging the Revolution: Caracas Chronicles and the Hugo Chávez Era brings together the best of our work from the last ten...
Llegó la hora ... de pagarle a los chinos (Updated)
A publisher friend (more on that later) sent me a copy of José Toro Hardy’s Llegó la Hora, and I found a piece of news that I wasn’t aware...
A picture of our failure
I love it: a simple graph that perfectly encapsulates the Venezuelan boom of 2012. It’s all right there. Last year’s growth spurt was the story of an out-of-control government,...
The bits of chavismo that will survive Chávez
Over the last few months, I (along with everyone else in this business) have been fielding the same kind of requests: “can you write us 600 words on...
Chevron shake-down? (Updated)
Setty has the details. Maduro’s line seems to be to continue to negotiate with Chevron on parallel tracks – simultaneously denouncing them and beseeching them to put more...
I'll see you in health!
A fortnight ago, one major public hospital of Western Caracas (the Periférico de Coche) was close to shutting down. Doctors and patients staged a loud protest from both inside...
The Possibility of an Island
So now it turns out President Chávez is (or is not – you know how these things are) spending his last days receiving hospice care on the tiny...
When violence reaches small towns
The city of Boconó, located in the Andean state of Trujillo has seen crime grow fast in the last twelve months. Local police admits that every weekend five...
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