Rory Carroll. Jon Lee Anderson. Richard Lapper. The big guns.
Courtesy of The Frontline Club. These are serious people, and it’s a good discussion, but one thing that struck me as badly misguided is the treatment of Barrio...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Your favorite Two Minutes Hate clip
So I’m trying to cobble together a nice list of amazing/appalling chavista agit-prop videos for a piece I’m doing and I realized my readers probably have some amazing...
QUE!?
You need to be forewarned. Clicking on this will expose you to the single most infuriating thing you’ve seen this week, if not this year. As a philosopher...
"Enfermedad de Base" Chronicles
Overheard at my breakfast table today… Me: It’s funny, I guess the new euphemism they’re using on Venezuelan State media reports about Chávez is “the underlying disease”… My...
We always knew this day would come...
And so, as long expected, the government has decided to shut down the last remaining opposition broadcaster: Globovision. And as long surmised, the decision is to be implemented...
The Long View on Oil-to-China
Over on Global Barrel, Tom O’Donnell makes the case that the Venezuela-China oil relationship has now reached a kind of critical mass that will keep it going far into...
The World is my Podcast
I was on PRI’s The World today talking about The Return. It was fun!
Chávez sneaks in through the bathroom window
So Chávez snuck back into the country at 2:30 in the morning with no previous announcement, no cameras around and only a 3 a.m. tweet to announce the...
A rejoinder on Leopoldo López's indictment
The substance of the accusations being brought 15-years after the fact against opposition leader Leopoldo López don’t merit very much comment, other than to note that that guy must really be squeaky...
Leopoldo López's future electoral viability bolstered
As the regime moves to put Leopoldo López in jail for the mother of all cold cases, I can’t help but wonder: Has chavismo really thought this one...
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