G.M.V.V. Chronicles, ctd.
A fire broke out last week in the improvised shelter for displaced people located in La Rinconada, Caracas’s racetrack. After the fire was put out, the shelter spent...
Gustavo Hernández A.
Guaro journalist and CaracasChron veteran.
The electricity crisis is escalating quickly
Failures in the national transmission system produced two major blackouts in the Western part of the country last week: one on Wednesday and another one last Saturday. The...
Venalum on strike
Since the start of the month, State-owned aluminium producer Venalum has been on strike. Three weeks later, the conflict has heated up between company workers and management, which has brought...
Heckuvajob, Iris!
Prisons Minister Iris Varela admitted in an interview with Últimas Noticias that their staff have access to only seven of the thirty prisons active in Venezuela today. She...
First image of Chávez since December released
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas and Science Minister Jorge Arreaza have made public in cadena nacional the first image of the comandante presidente since December 8th, 2012. Arreaza showed...
The slow meltdown of EFE
Founded in 1926, EFE is the oldest ice cream maker in Venezuela. It is now on serious danger of going bankrupt. The company (owned by Empresas Polar since 1987)...
Bellum pranes contra omnes
Sometimes the power of the pranes, the defacto rulers of Venezuelan prisons, is not confined to the walls of the jails. They want to impose their will outside...
Habia una vez un circo...
Almost five years ago, the comandante presidente created the National Circus Company, as a part of his cultural policy. A year and a half later, the Company set...
My kingdom for a baseball cap
The Chavernment sometimes uses the mandatory simulcasts on all TV and Radio stations (known as cadenas) to promote its image and political agenda through elaborate infomercials, but last night...
What's going on at CICPC town?
Almost eight months after a series of substancial reforms were announced in Venezuela’s criminal investigations police (CICPC, formally the PTJ), a brief report by the Comptroller General’s Office does...
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