Checking In
So I was finally released from the hospital this morning, after receiving treatment for a very aggressively bleeding duodenal ulcer. My red blood cell count still sucks, so...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
The New Normal
You know the country’s well and truly down the rabbithole when random illegal media outlet shutdowns don’t even register as a blip on N24! Dígalo ahí, RSF: Carabobo...
Worst. Tourism brochure. Ever!
Come to beautiful Venezuela, where you can enjoy… Unlawful killings, including summary executions of criminal suspects Widespread criminal kidnappings for ransom Prison violence and harsh prison conditions Inadequate...
Now I've Seen Everything
Right wing extremist, and very-very-good-novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa would never vote for Keiko Fujimori…but he’d consider voting for Humala! #31…I’m to the right of that guy??!??
"When two leaders fight, it's their peoples who suffer in the end..."
Juan Manuel Santos says he knows for a fact there are no more FARC camps in Venezuela. Think about it – that’s huge! Santos continues to far exceed...
If Linux can do it...
I’m still more or less floored by the response to my call for volunteers to craft a Conditional Cash Transfer Program proposal. There’s amazing expertise out there. I’m...
The View From Your Window
Den Bosch, The Netherlands – 11:00 a.m. (To participate, send the View from Your Window, along with the location and the time the photo was taken, to caracaschronicles...
Fighting The Last War
To hear Teodoro Petkoff put it, either Chávez Econguru Giordani plain old lied about having spent $5.5 billion “fixing” the electric crisis, or the money was royally wasted....
Keiko-ño...de su Padre!
No, Juan. En serio, no. No way. Some things are beyond lesser-of-two-evils thinking. We’re talking really about some rock bottom, basic stuff here. Really bedrock human values. Keiko...
The Underpaid Intern Defense
Why, on an episode of Kico Bautista’s Buenas Noches show back in september 2009, did Globovisión start running text messages along the bottom of the screen not even the...
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