Grenades galore (Updated)
The last few days have been quite tense in Aragua State, as an undeclared conflict between criminal gangs and the authorities heats up. It all began last Thursday when...
Newsprint wars, memetic wars
Barquisimeto’s main newspaper El Impulso has announced that starting May 12th the paper will reduce its daily edition to only 8 pages. In an editorial, the paper explains...
Inside the hegemony: Huge but hollow
For all the coverage that Caracas Chronicles has given to the State’s communicational hegemony all these years, two things are certain: First, it has grown so large that...
Leave no trace behind
There are already plenty of reports recording what happened in the wave of protests last year, but a new one from the Human Rights Center of the Andres Bello Catholic...
Jailhouse Overload
In case you missed it, there was a hostage crisis last week at the Bolivarian National Police HQ in Caracas. A group of inmates took two officers as...
Electric ills
After yesterday’s announcement that government working hours will be cut to save electricity, Nicolas Maduro tried to justify the measures in his weekly TV show by putting most...
Dim Wattage
See if you can detect the tension between these two recent news items: April 17th: In an interview with Barquisimeto newspaper El Impulso, Electrical Engineer Luis Vásquez Corro said...
Deadly Peace in the Tuy Valley (Updated)
Another weekend, another massacre in Venezuela: ten people were killed and three wounded during a late birthday party in Lomas de Guadalupe, a recently opened housing complex located...
Another summit is coming to Caracas
Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez and Oil Minister Asdrubal Chavez are making a quick tour of the Middle East this week, with visits to Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. As...
A matter of cops and death
How bad does the security situation have to be in a country for the cops themselves to go out to protest… because they don’t feel safe on the...
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