Recipe for polarization
1. Make otherwise sensible people talk about the death of Chávez. 2. Use the courts to pick on the opposition’s leaders and slowly take away their rights. 3....
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
The chatty doctor
I had never heard the name Salvador Navarrete before. A Venezuelan doctor, I now learn. Navarrete was all over the news yesterday. In a wide-ranging interview (in Spanish), Dr....
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The Cuban flag proudly waves next to the Venezuelan tricolor inside a Venezuelan military compound. HT: Memo Arocha, photo courtesy of El Carabobeño. PS: Busy today with work,...
Did he deliver? (Updated)
I’ve been out all day, so I missed Henrique Capriles’ speech. I can’t find a complete transcript, and I haven’t seen the video, so your thoughts are appreciated....
A few tips for the front runner
Tomorrow, Miranda Governor Henrique Capriles will officially launch his campaign for the opposition’s Presidential nomination. Flimsy phone-polls and chutzpah-filled, self-proclaimed surge claims notwithstanding, he continues to be the...
A question for our enlightened readers
I’ve been mulling a post about Venezuela’s centuries-old claim on the lands west of the Essequibo river. But I have a confession to make: the whole topic bores...
Catatumbo Chronicles
Saudade alert! Great stuff… courtesy of ABC News Nightline.
5,000 posts of solitude
This is Caracas Chronicles’ 5,000th post. I don’t know what that means, frankly, just like I don’t know what this blog means. I just know I enjoy writing...
Castaways at a funeral
Now that the Capybara has compared us to La Hojilla, I’ve been thinking about good’ol CAP. Acción Democrática, the party he belonged to most of his life before...
The Emperor has no clothes
The saddest thing about the memos that Venezuela’s ministers sent to Hugo Chávez while he was convalescing in Havanna?
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