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This piece, about online censorship by the government Venezuela loves to seek technical assistance from, is absolutely chilling in its detail: …[Chinese] censors expend even more effort on...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
The Petrostate, Visualized
This is just the coolest visualization tool ever. Venezuelan Exports in 1995 Venezuelan Exports in 2010: (These static images don’t really do the visualization-platform justice, you have to...
The Depth of Those Caracas 2002/Cairo 2013 Parallels
Reading this, it’s hard to shake the feeling that what Egypt is going through now is some bizarre alternate-universe version of what we would’ve faced in April 2002...
Omaigá Chronicles
Entiéndelo: Venezuela te está trolleando… What’s chilling is that that wasn’t even the worst of yesterday’s session. WTF of the year goes to this monstruosity.
Dystopias
Panfleto Negro is running a Dystopia-writing contest. Prize: 100 euros, via paypal. Great fun! Check out my entry. Then write one of your own!
The end of a long debate
Léelo en Español en Prodavinci. It’s easy to forget that, before chavismo descended into outright farce, there was a genuine intellectual debate to be had about the proper...
Dark Days for Panfleto Negro
Adriana Pérez Bonilla puts her finger on something raw and real and terrifying and simultaneously hilarious and not even a little bit funny in this Panfleto piece. It’s...
Three and a half years, some rapes, beatings and a forced abortion later...
…it looks like Judge María Lourdes Afiuni will be released later on this morning. Calling what happened to this woman a “detention” amounts to lexical complicity in an...
Six months on, do we miss him yet?
Back in December, just before news broke of El Comandante’s final, doomed Cuban surgery, I wrote this post, Well, guess what: none of the guys who’ll be fighting...
What'll it be, Mr. Tracy? Deeply damaging interview or deeply damaging film?
Tim Tracy, the gringo documentary film-maker absurdly accused of espionage by the Maduro government, has just been expelled from Venezuela, after a few weeks in a SEBIN basement...
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