16D: Hercules vs. the Stockholm Syndrome
Now, because you’re reading this blog, it’s a safe bet that you’re really into Venezuelan politics and, more than likely, take a strong tribal stance on the whole...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
Chronicles from the End of Civilization
All that’s left at this point – and it isn’t much, but it’s also not nothing – is to chronicle the rot. And I suppose it’s important to...
Rosita and me
News this week that Venezuelan Silicon Starlet Rosita, a.k.a. Jimena Araya, a.k.a. the Pran Madame is to be made Regional Director of Human Rights in Aragua for the expropriated PODEMOS...
Aquí está, este es...
Y’all didn’t think Chávez would do anything so crass as to actually announce his paquetazo, did you? Of course not, that would be neoliberal. He’s just gone ahead and...
MIA Report
It seemed only fair, back when I asked my wife if she’d move to Venezuela with me if Capriles won the election, to answer yes when she asked...
Other Voiceless
I don’t think I’m the only one going through this but, over the last couple of weeks, I’ve found it harder and harder to write. It’s a disorienting...
Luis Pedro's Turn of Phrase
It’s not easy to think up ways to infuse life into the tired old political economy discussion we’ve been having since the 1930s, but Luis Pedro España manages...
Opposition posterior conveyance, in graphical form
Our serial purveyors of Venezuelan election maps have updated their parish-by-parish interface to create a nice graphical representation of how exactly our asses got handed to us on October...
How the Oppo Machines Fared
Longtime friend of the blog Omar Zambrano contributes this fun little ditty to the dismal art of 7-O-ology… It’s a cold, hard fact: electorally speaking, Chavez whipped our...
Paquetazo en Gotas
And so it begins. The Chávez government started to cut back on unsustainable social spending in the construction sector not years after the election, or months, or weeks even,...
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