A new kind of draft
Recluta… there’s a word that brings memories. (In most, if not all cases, not happy ones). For a country that’s gone over 150 years without a proper shootin’...
Gustavo Hernández A.
Guaro journalist and CaracasChron veteran.
2001: A Pigs('-Legs)-in-Space Odyssey
It’s been a tough old month for Caracas tabloid 2001, as they face two different forms of repression. Last Friday, three journalists went down to Fuerte Tiuna to cover...
Another local paper bites the dust
Barinas newspaper De Frente is the latest casualty of the lack of newsprint which is affecting many regional papers in Venezuela. As an extra wrinkle, they aren’t even...
A territorial mess, cont.
Venezuela is divided into states. States are divided into municipalities. Each municipality has one mayor, and each state has one governor.That is what the Constitution says. Simple, right?...
Cesppa backtracks... just a little bit
Since its creation by decree earlier this month, there’s been a lot of controversy over the new State entity known as CESPPA (Strategic Center for the Security and...
Sabotage-o-meter
Nicolás Maduro keeps talking about an alleged “economic sabotage” against the country. Government ministers toe the line and blame the “S” word for almost everything (from the electric...
Cancillería blues
After four years without a salary increase, the workers of the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MPPRE) said “enough!” this week and staged a loud protest outside the Ministry’s Administrative...
Words-fail-me Chronicles
Nicolas Maduro creates a brand new Vice-Ministry for the “Supreme Social Happiness of the Venezuelan People”. No, this is not from the Chigüire Bipolar. This is 100% real...
A territorial mess
Back to basics: according to the Constitution of 1999, Venezuela is now organized into 23 States (which are divided in 335 Municipalities), a Capital District and a small group...
"Torre de David" goes Hollywood
The story of La Torre of David, an incomplete Caracas skyscraper which turned into a vertical slum, is well known around the world: from an award-winning architecture project...
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