A Different Kind of Hospital Exposé
A large hospital in Valencia gets the New Yorker treatment this week, at the start a long piece by William Finnegan that’s hard to do justice to with a...
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HRW Takes Stock of the Crisis
Human Rights Watch takes an in-depth look into food shortages, a crippled healthcare system and protests, and urges regional governments to press Maduro to address the crisis once for all.
1999-2001: The Chávez Years We Forgot To Remember
A Facebook post on Alejandro Velasco's wall sends me into a deep reverie, as I realize "wait, half the people who read Caracas Chronicles probably don't remember what the early Chávez years were like."
ICYM: Reports of the death of the price control regime are greatly exaggerated
Official prices are rising. This means the government must've come to its senses and started lifting price controls, right? Not at all! Pedro Rosas leads you on a guided tour of a crazy system.
A Letter to the Pope, by Laureano Márquez
Your Holiness, dialogue is the search of consensus through reason between people. The quid of our dilemma is this: we want to be considered "people"again.
El Comandante Makes it to the US Elections
Years after his passing, and thousands of miles from his home, El Comandante lives on... To our shame.
Venezuela Tries to Game the UN's Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights
You'd think reputable NGOs like the "Association for Obvious Things" would have no trouble seeing through Venezuela's pathetic attempt to whitewash its Human Rights record
Garry Kasparov's Guide to Venezuela's 2018 Election
In the New York Times, the former World Chess Champion walks us through what the 2018 election is going to look like if the regime gets away with the recallicide.
Peru Takes the Lead
Remember back when every former president in Latin America was against the Venezuelan regime and every current president on the fence? That's over.
Caracas Chronicles does Group Therapy
Our resident artist, AdryTatoo, led the Caracas Chronicles Team through an exercise of channeling our frustrations into collage, while we get back to covering the crisis. The results are as fascinating as they are perturbing. Behold.
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