The "consultation" panacea
The Chavernment has announced that it will carry out a “National Consultation for a Safe Coexistance”, as part of its most recent security program. This will eventually translate...
Gustavo Hernández A.
Guaro journalist and CaracasChron veteran.
Ad War Update, continued
The Chavez camp has decided to push the narrative of inevitability is its latest one-minute spot, focusing on footage of its rallys and what they called “…the most...
The litmus test
September 13th will go down as one of the toughest days in Henrique Capriles Radonski’s presidential run. As I watched on VTV the video of deputy Juan Carlos...
Tiempos de Dictadura: A great Venezuelan documentary
Here’s another thing you almost never see: a Venezuelan documentary in the local cinema. It’s rare to find them in theaters for a reason, you’d have to be...
Dirty campaign update
Here’s something you almost never see in a Venezuelan campaign: a full-on, U.S. style negative smear ad. A recent post explained that Chávez has three parallel campaigns going...
"Sensation of Insecurity" Chronicles, cont.
As another weekend with an alarming number of violent deaths, the “sensation of insecurity” caught up with a high ranking Chavista: former Finance Minister and a current member of...
Apagón con apagón se paga
Western provinces of Cuba (including the capital Havana) suffered a four hour electrical blackout last Sunday night. The official explanation by Cuban authorities is “…a failure in a...
The pran is dead. Long live the pran.
The night of September 6th witnessed a violent regime change inside Santa Ana Prison (in Tachira State): A shootout between rival factions ended with the deaths of the...
Parallel campaign update
Before the campaign began in July, the Chavernment launched the “two-hearts’ strategy”: A elaborated PR campaign for the Executive branch (Venezuelan Heart), which contained elements that were similar...
No wonder tourists don't wanna come back here
Yesterday, Juan Cristobal picked apart a report from the BBC about the decline of foreign tourism in Venezuela. It’s an overdetermined problem: there’s more than one explanation, and each...
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