Brand new airport, same old planes
Last week, Aragua State Governor Tareck El Aissami said that the El Libertador Air Force Base (near Maracay) would become a civilian airport for domestic and international flights....
Gustavo Hernández A.
Guaro journalist and CaracasChron veteran.
Even the "food sovereignty" is imported...
Food Minister Félix Osorio (brother of his predecessor, Carlos) has indicated that at least 26,000 tons of food (just under 1 Kg. per person) have been arriving to...
Chávez or bust, cont.
Looks like I was right after all: the bust of the late comandante supremo located outside the IPSFA shopping center in Caracas will be the first of many....
It's the easy way or the CONATEL way
Maracaibo-based TV channel Americana de Televisión (ATEL) is not your typical local TV station. Since its foundation ten years ago, ATEL can be only seen by cable and...
Parking in Caracas is getting harder
Almost a year ago, I wrote a post about the ordeal that drivers in Caracas and other Venezuelan cities face every day just to find an available parking...
Bandes's not-so-great overseas adventures
Back in 2006, the Venezuelan state’s development bank BANDES decided to expand its operations overseas by starting a commercial branch in Uruguay. Five years later, Bandes Uruguay announced...
Best Bit Translated
MARIO SILVA: On [April] 12th [Nicolas Maduro] tells me: Call me when you can, without saying it live on air. I call him. You know what he tells...
AVN foils Google's evil plan (Updated)
Venezuelan State news agency AVN is apparently angry. But why? Is it because of the toilet paper shortage? Or perhaps because of recent events of violence in Cojedes...
The PSUV outsources to China
The recently named Vice-President of China Li Yuanchao visited Venezuela and met with Nicolás Maduro in Miraflores Palace to sign a new batch of deals between both governments....
Luisa Estela is down, but not out
The Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) selects its leadership at the beginning of the judicial year, every January. This time, it took them until May to finally reach a...
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