All The Wheat in Russia
Caracas Chronicles has obtained exclusive access to embassy memo where Russian diplomats seek to explain Venezuelan bread market back to Headquarters.
Life
How Hampa is Destroying 70 Years of Venezuelan Science
If only the malandros who keep going back to UCV's Instituto de Medicina Tropical to pick at the bones of a broken institutions knew Dr. Félix Pifano, and the way this institute transformed Venezuela.
A Journey To Mukumbarí
The brand new Mérida cable car is both a sample of what Venezuela could be, and the reasons why it’s not: A beautiful place doomed by economic nonsense.
All Payment Systems Collapse in Venezuela at Once
Rampant inflation, highly devalued currency, widespread shortages of everything, including paper money...Makes me just want to get drunk, except I can't because the liquor store wont take my debit card.
An Anthem for Nicolás Maduro
What should be the theme song for Maduro's daily, four-hour long radio show, La Hora de la Salsa.
Bachaqueating Bitcoins
In Venezuela, everybody's looking for an angle. Techies have found theirs: mining bitcoins using the world's most crazy-cheap electricity.
Venezuela's MERCOSUR Days are Numbered
As the trade block prepares to suspend Venezuela for failing to implement any of its accession obligations, the government doesn't even seem to care.
She stood up to Chávez in the name of justice. Her seven year nightmare is not over.
Last week, Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni was barred from appointing her own counsel at a disciplinary tribunal to eject her from the bench. A bizarre injustice, but entirely in keeping with the kafkaesque seven year ordeal she has faced.
Jones, Serrano, and the Tyranny of People Who Know WTF They're Talking About
It's not just that Trump and Maduro have a disturbing tendency to believe things that are plainly false, it's that they turf out their understanding of the world to obvious charlatans.
Where Mass Graves are 'Normal', Normality Isn't
As massacres become a weekly event in Venezuela, mass graves are crafting a new abnormal normality, rendering empathy impossible and dehumanizing us little by little.
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