$%*& my Japanese wife says
My wife laughed hard at the tragic, yet still unmistakably funny story of the dozens of high-society Venezuelans coming back from a throw-the-house-out-the-window, no-expenses-spared Punta Cana wedding with...
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Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Introducing Caracas Chronicles en Español
Almost from the moment this blog launched – all the way back in the pre-YouTube internet Paleozoic of 2002 – people have been asking me when I’ll launch...
Dismantling Allan Brewer-Carías
My review of Allan Brewer-Carías’s simply unreadable brick, Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela, is now up on TNR’s Book Review site. Fun bit: Perhaps Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela should be...
Enlace Venezuela: Getting Serious About The Day After
In this special guest post for 23 de enero, Jose Ramón Morales Arilla announces an exciting initiative to start in on some serious planning for What Comes Next:...
Deconstructing Giusti
Do not miss Setty’s epic post on Luis Giusti and the brewing scandal at Colombian private oil company Alange Energy. It’s compelling and – despite Setty’s best efforts...
Any Decision You Want, So Long As It's "Guilty" (Corrected)
Brazen violations of due process are a dime a dozen in revolutionary Venezuela, sure, but few can be quite so brazen as the effective judicial kidnapping of National...
Pobre Venezuela, Pobre Huguito
Censorship? Censorship?! No chico, you’re confused. We just have a system where the government gets to decide which Soap Operas you’re allowed to watch, and makes that decision...
Classist Bile Alert
Vladimir Villegas isn’t pro-Fernando Soto Rojas…but he’s definitely anti-anti-Soto Rojas. It makes for an interesting read.
New Horizons in Revolutionary Dissent Management
That “great European leader” whose oil ended up lost in Lake Charles somehow has thought up a new technique for managing dissent at home: taking away his opponents’...
These days, he's only a problem for us
How times change. As the diplomat Chávez once championed to lead the OAS openly calls for a formal debate on his increasing authoritarianism and says the Enabling Law violates...
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