The Final Mask
It’s an election season mainstay, a tradition almost. Ahead of every vote since the opposition’s catastrophically misguidedecision to cry “Fraud!” in 2004, government spokesmen go on the record to ponderously...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
The Workers vs. Their Paradise
My latest for the What’s Next Venezuela? Blog. Key bit: Under private ownership, any complaint the unions take to State Labor Inspectorates tend to be heard sympathetically. The...
Terrorism that goes "Boom"
You gotta give chavista diplomacy an A for gumption. Decrying Spain for daring to ask that Venezuela deport a known ETA terrorist (currently on the Venezuelan governments payroll),...
A New Start
Alright, the old site simply was too buggy to keep using indefinitely. So we’re going to try blogging using WordPress from now on. The comments platform doesn’t have...
MIA Report
Sorry to go all MIA on everyone all of a sudden. It’s been a horrible few weeks for me: first came the sudden loss of my dad, a...
In Defense of Andres Izarra
This is a tale of a twitter feed gone mad. Yesterday, I noticed an evolving twitter tiff between somebody named Vendetta_V and the president of chavista broadcaster Telesur,...
52-48. Case Closed.
There has been a bit of confusion among analysts about the real meaning of the September 26th election. While most in the opposition say that 52% of the...
A Prize for Many
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobao. Maria Lourdes Afiuni and the other prisoners of conscience in Venezuelan jails do not have...
Quico on TNR, CBS News
Quico writes about the elections on The New Republic’s website. CBS News picked it up. For a while yesterday, the article was the top hit on Google News....
Carta Abierta a Socorro Hernández
(Apologies to our English-language readers for this rare post in Spanish) Querida Socorro, Con curiosidad leímos tus declaraciones del día de hoy, en las que dices, con la...
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