Lost in the Japanese countryside
Quico chronicles how the Japanese also sometimes feel like foreigners in their own land.
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
How do we go after Maduro?
With Hugo Chávez’s possible demise, Venezuelans could be facing a new Presidential election soon. This provides a unique opportunity for us, because the candidate we would likely face...
Cúcuta Chronicles
A gringo crosses the border. A guest post from Jonathan Pfaehler. The Colombo-Venezuelan border is a two-faced, majestic beauty burdened by the protracted armed conflict in Colombia, the...
UN: Poverty went up in Venezuela
So says the United Nations Economic Comission on Latin America (ECLAC, or CEPAL for Spanish speakers). The caveat: they are talking about 2010-2011., and the rise was modest....
Where's Waldo? FP Edition
I break down the latest developments for foreign readers, over at the Transitions blog.
Where's Waldo? FP Edition
I break down the latest developments for foreign readers, over at the Transitions blog.
Great reading for the day
Don’t miss this reportage by the supremely talented Maye Primera (in Spanish), an excerpt of an upcoming book, courtesy of Prodavinci. It’s about the deaths in the Retén...
Twenty years of that
Few people alive in Venezuela twenty years ago will forget November 27th, 1992. That day, we woke up to another coup d’etat attempt, only this one was happening...
8,191,132 rapists
Yesterday we learned that Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni, Hugo Chávez’s most visible political prisoner, was tortured and raped while in jail. She bravely told her story in a...
This post practically writes itself
Yesterday, many of us did a double take when we read the latest toxic public announcement by Hugo Chávez’s economic czar, Jorge Giordani. Giordani publicly announced that Venezuelans...
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