Goldbuggered
Remember the big show the government put on to bring home the nation's gold reserves? Yup, they've started selling those now.
Gumersindo Rodríguez, 1933-2015
In his memory, we reprint the profile of him published in The New York Times on September 2nd, 1975.
The Model and Landslide Risk
In the current opinion climate, PSUV faces an electoral defeat of historic, system-shaking proportions. If anything, our model could be understating the scale of PSUV's defeat.
Presenting the Caracas Chronicles Legislative Elections Forecasting App, now in color!
Because everyone should be allowed to fiddle around with results, not just Tibisay.
With a Gun to its Head, Aporrea Discovers Freedom of Speech
Rage-inducing as Aporrea's late conversion is, Venezuela's public sphere would be badly diminished if chavistas lost the one independent medium they have left.
Ricardo the Consequent
The real take away from Ricardo Hausmann's illegally wiretapped conversation with Lorenzo Mendoza is that he says exactly the same things in private as he does in public.
Presenting the New Caracas Chronicles
Bigger, faster, bolder, smarter and, for the first time, reader supported.
Venezuela For Beginners
Some background on Venezuela before Hugo Chávez Venezuela was a semi-functional democracy until the 1980s. The country was trying to develop a domestic industry thanks to the boom...
The One about Chávez's Hearse
Carolina Acosta-Alzuru has a good riff about the need to wait until a country is ready to tell its stories. Venezuela isn’t ready to start telling its story yet, but one...
It's the Catatonia, Stupid
These days, if you’re looking for reasons to be alarmed about Venezuela you’re spoilt for choice. But if I had to pick one, just one signal that’s freaking...
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