Venezuela's Quirky Election: The Lists
Newbies to Venezuelan politics may not know that the voting system for Venezuela’s National Assembly (our local parliament) is mixed. What this means is that some deputies are...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Beginner's Guide the Chavez Era
Why a Beginner’s Guide? First, caveat lector: it’s surprisingly tough to find insightful material on Venezuela online. Wild overstatement is rampant: Chavez provokes such strong emotions that both...
Who's afraid of the big, bad Gerrymander?
Some longtime readers are up-in-armsabout the CNE’s (predictable) decision to Gerrymander the hell out of the constituencies ahead of September’s legislative elections, which will ensure chavistas get many...
Supermassive
Quico says: I’m still not over Chávez’s speech in Copenhagen last week. It’s been a long time since Hugo Chávez has sent my blood pressure to those lofty...
Big Oil has landed: Hugo Chávez in Copenhagen
Quico and Juan Cristobal say: What do you think would happen if the head of one of the world’s five largest oil companies started lecturing the UN Climate...
Ten Years on From The Stillborn Constitution
Quico says: …rumors, partly fueled by Aristóbulo’s keynote address to the National Assembly, are now heavy that Chávez is considering launching a fresh constituyente – a Constitutional Convention...
Where the Maisanta Bodies Are Buried
Quico says: Venezuela is far from the first country where an autocratic regime has used its economic muscle to systematically punish dissidents where it hurts: in their pocketbooks....
ME-O bids adieu-o
Juan Cristobal says: Chile held the first round of Presidential voting yesterday, and since I’m married to the place Quico asked me to pitch in. While most news...
Book 'em!
Quico says: As I think about it, the truly newsworthy aspect of the jailing of the judge who freed Eligio Cedeño isn’t that they jailed her – hell,...
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