Fourteen years on
Oh geez, has it really been fourteen years already? Who knew?! Time flies when your country is going down the toilet. Dígalo ahí, Santos, Cuando empezó la revolución, las...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
All Roads Lead to Repression
Here’s a thought someone put in my inbox – and a good one. The major paradox of the Chávez era is what you might call the Case of...
A timely reminder
This nifty BBC interactive feature serves as a timely reminder: gasoline in Venezuela isn’t so much “cheap” as it is, for all intents and purposes, free. [Hat tip:...
The Savage Discourse Revisited
It’s been eight years since I translated the passages below from the classic (if too-little-read) book by Merideño philosopher/poet J.M. Briceño Guerrero, but I still sporadically go back...
Prannation
Just finished Jon Lee Anderson’s (infuriatingly paywalled) New Yorker piece about the ranchification of Caracas. Anderson well justifies his reputation as a journalistic legend here: the piece really...
This is what the Paquetazo looks like
As the government finds it has fewer dollars to fund imports of cut-price food, scenes like this one are set to become increasingly “normal”. When people imagine the...
Asthma Attack Chronicles
Probably the most distress-inducing thing I’ve read about Venezuela in the last few months is stuck away between parenthesis in this MUD press release: Venezuela is now experiencing a...
The Animalfarmification of Our Politics
Univisión’s Manuel Rueda is on the case, Imagine the following script: A wildly popular leader of a tropical country wins an election and then heads to a foreign...
Read this
Israel Centeno in El País, (an English version is here.) Un gobierno autocrático que se ha adueñado de todas las instituciones del Estado no informa, no dice la verdad;...
Brazil turning the screws
Oh yeah, they’re really letting Maduro have it now. </irony>
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