There Must be 222 Ways to Leave Your Skin Behind at Amuay
Thanks to the miracle that is this leak, we now know that a report dated May this year by RJG Risk Engineering’s Roger Gregory noted there were 222 accidents...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
“For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.”
Here’s my run-down on the Amuay Explosion for the IHT.
CPJ Takes on Communicational Hegemony
On the heels of a scathing LA Times piece on the tone of campaign coverage in the National System of Public Media, the latest report on the state...
Annals of Fiscal Responsibility
Check out fringe presidential candidate Reina Sequera’s interview with Últimas Noticias, particularly the bit starting at 4:34. Yup, the crazy lady is actually promising One Million Dollars Cash to...
Taking the good lucha to D.C.
by Roberto Nasser As the old saying has it, “all politics are local“. But for plenty of us, it’s just not true. As a Caraqueño in D.C., I’m...
Twenty Questions for Rafael Ramírez
Here’s a mental exercise for you. Imagine just for a second that PDVSA was a properly run oil firm with an adequate worker safety culture and well-developed mechanisms...
Why We Can Win
by Isabella Picón It’s Friday night after a rough week. I’m exhausted and it’s 10 p.m but somehow I find myself with some friends, music and a cubalibre in my...
File Under: Caiga quien caiga, hasta las últimas consecuencias
Después dicen que el gobierno no es eficiente. A scant 36 hours after the Amuay disaster, and just 24 hours after he had promised an “exhaustive investigation” President...
El Cambio de Aceite
Once every great while, I get that itch that only Panfleto Negro can scratch.
Ex-PDVSAs of Caracas Chronicles, Help Me Out
At this point, we still don’t have a clear picture of how much damage Amuay Refinery suffered overall from last night’s blast. We still don’t know precisely which...
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