Only hegemons can get newsprint
Barquisimeto’s main newspaper (and the second oldest working paper in Venezuela) El Impulso only has enough inventory of paper to continue publishing until December. Since CADIVI has not give...
Gustavo Hernández A.
Guaro journalist and CaracasChron veteran.
The economic war's new frontline: Supermarket checkout counters (Updated)
Remember that Superior Organ for the Economy Nicolas Maduro created not long ago? Well, its head, Hébert García Plaza found out during an inspection tour that the real...
The Battle of Sabaneta Prison Ends (Updated)
In the end, there was no final battle between Sabaneta Prison pran-in-chief “El Mocho Edwin” and State forces. Instead, all the remaining inmates were moved out over the...
The Battle of Sabaneta Prison, cont.
Sabaneta Prison remains tense, even after a large number of inmates have been transferred to other prisons. Yesterday, the major pran of Sabaneta, “El Mocho Edwin”, made an appereance...
The only useful Bolivar Fuerte banknote left
Back when it was introduced, in 2008, we all sensed that the “bolivar fuerte” nickname they used in knocking 3-zeroes off of the old bolivar had rich potential...
The Battle of Sabaneta Prison
For the second time in a month, a serious spasm of violence convulsed Sabaneta Prison in Maracaibo. The toll this time: 16 people dead. At the center of...
What's cooking at the AN today? (Updated)
Access to the first session of the National Assembly after its month-long recess will be even more restricted than usual: not only private media is banned from covering...
The uncertain fate of Global TV (Updated)
Two weeks after Maracaibo’s Global TV lost its cable TV access by order of CONATEL, its director Guido Briceño gave a press conference to explain what’s been going...
"New Conferry" Chronicles (Corrected)
Since its expropiation by the government almost two years ago, shipping company Conferry (which connects Margarita and Coche Islands with the mainland) has not lived up to its...
What a Venezuelan State-owned 5-star hotel looks like...
I’ve written before about the State-owned Venetur hotel chain, but thanks to this report from Peru’s Panamericana TV, we can see the current conditions inside one of its...
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