All I need is a miracle...
The International Crisis Group commends us to a higher power.
Life
What will President Trump mean for Venezuela?
So it's supposed to be my job to help you figure out what the Trump presidency [[[deep shudder]]] will mean for Venezuela. Except I can't do my job, because trying to predict how Donald Trump will behave in any give context is a lost cause.
President Trump
However much trouble we thought we were in, we're in way worse trouble than that.
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...
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
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