Tap Water Chronicles
The people of Valencia have been drinking water with elevated levels of aluminum for the last 29 months now. Aluminum in drinking water has been linked with nerve damage, leading...
Gustavo Hernández A.
Guaro journalist and CaracasChron veteran.
Double standard
Days after the April 14th election, this video of Housing Minister Ricardo Molina threating to fire any employee who dares to “speak ill of the Revolution” or is...
You don't know Father Vidal
Last month, a Maracaibo priest named Vidal Atencio put Chávez on the altar…literally. Alongside the image of the comandante eterno he had pictures of the Libertador and Zulia State Governor...
(In)secure fatherland
This weekend, three major violent incidents around the country left a total of 17 deaths: eight at a graduation party in Caicara del Orinoco, five during a birthday...
Passport gridlock
Looks like what once was a problem solved is coming back with a vengeance: getting or renewing a passport is once more becoming an ordeal for ordinary Venezuelans. Former...
Sanity 1, Samán 0
Earlier this month, butchers across the land went on strike, fed up with both constant harassment by INDEPABIS and price controls that force them to sell at a loss....
Wasteful spending chronicles
The government is creating a brand new public transportation company called “Corporation of Socialist Transportation”. Didn’t they know there’s already have a similar kind of company called Sitssa?...
Malaria comes back to the future
As the H1N1 outbreak which started last month is still affecting the country, a very different health concern is now among us. The Venezuelan Society of Infectology is denouncing...
Even the rectal sovereignty is imported...
To stop the “imperialist plan” to deprive us from toilet paper and making our lives (even more) miserable, the State has joined forces with a major corporation del...
Motorizado nation
With the transformation of the Venezuelan landscape in recent decades, the figure of the motorcyclist (motorizado) has become almost omnipresent not only in the largest cities, but also...
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