Wildfires on the rise
For a week, a massive wildfire has caused serious damage in Canaima National Park. This recent photograph from the newspaper Correo del Caroní shows how the fire has...
Gustavo Hernández A.
Guaro journalist and CaracasChron veteran.
Ad War Update: reaching the endgame
With two days of official campaign left, the candidates are rushing to make the most with the little time they have left. This is also visible on the...
The electrical war, cont. (Updated)
Since the official annoucement of the “electrical war” last Thursday by Acting-(Like-a)-President Nicolás Maduro, things didn’t improve this weekend – to the point that some parts of Acarigua...
Ad War Update: one week to go
The shortest presidential campaign in Venezuelan history is now underway in the streets, on the airwaves and also on the inter-tubes. Let’s have a look: With footage of...
The electrical war
In a campaign rally in Cojedes today, Acting-(Like-a)-President Nicolás Maduro announced the creation of a brand new mission for the electricity sector, focus to fight what he calls an...
The red canonization continues
The Maternity & Children’s Hospital in the Western Caracas neighborhood of El Valle (seen in the picture left) is set to finally be opened to the public after...
We're all for universal equilibrium, as long as somebody else pays
The U.N. General Assembly just passed a landmark global treaty on arms sales. First reports indicated that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela abstained, which was perhaps not surprising...
Ad War Update: pre-campaña ends, official campaign begins
With the official campaign now upon us, what’s left of the pre-campaña is online: The Maduro campaign is going big on the figure of the comandante supremo. Here,...
Sponsored hip-hop
You’ve probably never heard of Rebel Diaz, a hip-hop group from NYC’s South Bronx, whose music is top-heavy with ñángara politics. Days ago, they released a new tribute...
What the world needs now...
A Chavista youth group in San Francisco (South of Maracaibo) is offering to tattoo the signature of the comandante supremo for free. The group known as FIJU has informed...
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