Leopoldo in depth
This Foreign Policy piece by Roberto Lovato has gotten a bit of pushback because of its less-than-rosy account of the public persona of Leopoldo López. And, in particular, for...
Memo to the Rangels: the meme is "Economic War"
“On July 14th three pasta-making factories stopped working. Bread manufacturing could stop in October. The problem in both sectors is the same: lack of wheat. The reason for this is that...
Inside soaps
One of the perks of writing the blog is that I get to meet and interact with interesting people I wouldn’t normally associate with – both in the comments section,...
El ideario económico de Maria Corina
(Una entrevista exclusiva con Caracas Chronicles) En la Quinta El Bejucal de Altamira todo es movimiento. La casa es de esas típicas quintas de los años cuarenta o...
El ideario económico de Maria Corina
(Una entrevista exclusiva con Caracas Chronicles) En la Quinta El Bejucal de Altamira todo es movimiento. La casa es de esas típicas quintas de los años cuarenta o...
#HablaLaOnu #HotAir #ConcernsConcerns
The UN Human Rights Commission came out with a report (in draft form, but since everyone is tweeting about it, I assume it’s the definitive version) on Venezuela....
Cheap labor "a la criolla"
Clímax magazine, one of Venezuela’s new crop of online media outlets, has an excellent story on how Venezuela has become a haven for cheap labor. Now, if you...
Desmadre
Venezuela has always been corrupt – at least ever since I’ve been around. But it seems as if corruption has exploded in the last year, or two. If...
A disaster in Brasilia?
If you scan the vanilla-red webpages of Venezuela’s “hegemonized” media, you might learn that Nicolás Maduro went to a Mercosur summit in Brasilia today. Speeches were given, documents...
Santa Bárbara
It’s 6:30 PM, and it’s already pitch dark in Maracaibo, courtesy of Hugo Chávez’s tantrum that led to a change in the time zone a few years back. I’m having...
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