The cost of Cuban "expertise"
As the ongoing electric crisis continues, this blog reported last September how Cuba was helping the national electric company CORPOELEC handle the numerous problems of our power grid...
Gustavo Hernández A.
Guaro journalist and CaracasChron veteran.
Capriles owns Jaua
Henrique Capriles Radonski was inaugurated today as Miranda State Governor for a second term and he didn’t miss the opportunity during his speech to point how 16-D challenger...
Meet the VP of the VP
Former Vice-President Elias Jaua has been named new Foreign Affairs Minister. That’s his consolation prize after losing the Miranda State election last month. Back in October, he said...
Are blackouts coming to Caracas?
For years, the Venezuelan capital was kept at bay of electrical blackouts by orders of the comandante presidente himself. In recent months, failures in the service have increased...
Villegas drops the communicational ball
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas took his anger to the twittersphere yesterday to denounce an “unscrupulous” alleged fake photo of Rosinés, the comandante presidente’s youngest daughter, with rapper Nicki...
The gang's all here!
It has been a crowded weekend in Havana so far. First, two Latin American presidents tried unsuccessfully to visit the comandante presidente: Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and...
The TSJ rubber-stamps the Maduro doctrine (Updated)
After three and a half hours of waiting, the president of the Venezuelan Supreme Court Luisa Estela Morales has declared in a press conference that President Hugo Chavez...
Food sovereignty is a mere formality
For quite some time, the Chavernment has sold us the premise that Venezuela is pretty strong in food sovereignty. But in the last few weeks, the wave of...
VP Maduro: No inauguration on January 10th (Updated)
Minutes ago, the President of the National Assembly Diosdado Cabello just read a letter from Vice-President Nicolas Maduro, in which he indicates that President Hugo Chavez won’t attend...
El binomio de oro
An “inspection” to a coffee factory in Caracas was the perfect PR opportunity for the Chavernment to present an image of unity, specially between its two top men:...
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