Power, impunity, and hacks
If there is one arm of the Venezuelan state apparatus that comes out looking like royal crap in the Human RIghts Watch report, it is the public prosecutors....
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Camera-shy monsters
One of the things that jumps out of the Human Rights Watch report is how our human rights violators seem to be fearful of appearing on video. As...
Communal Councils are a mixed bag, says @brianpablo10
Reuters’ Brian Ellsworth has published a detailed look at communal councils – how mcuh money they get, and what they have done with it. Contrary to what you can...
It's human rights week at Caracas Chronicles
The most recent report by Human Rights Watch on the protests in Venezuela comprehensibly dismantles the government’s line of defense on allegations of human rights abuses. In page after page of...
Cadivi dies, and so does the middle class
(Since Cadivi is gasping its final breaths surrounded by controversy and not a minute too soon, this guest post by Iesa professor Pedro Luis Rodríguez could not be better timed. Rodríguez...
Scars, economic or human
Two in-depth articles today from the international press on the many scars left behind by chavismo. In the New York Times, William Neuman talks to several people alleging human rights...
A clarification on the @CaracasChron account
Some of you may know that, aside from editing the blog, I also handle the CC Twitter account, @CaracasChron. Aside from that, I have my own personal account,...
A rare judicial win for the opposition
Article 68 of the Venezuelan Constitution reads as follows: “Citizens have the right to demonstrate peacefully and without weapons, with no other requirements than those established in the law. The...
Venezuela: importing milk since the XVIIIth Century
One of the new textbooks being distributed in Venezuela’s schools makes the strange claim that Simón Bolívar was nursed … by a Cuban woman. Now, the story of Bolívar’s...
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