Beauty Parlor Confessions
A visit to the Salon has always been a joy ride; laughter and hairspray always filled the air. Last time was different, as parlor talk got real.
Life
Too Toxic for Pablo Iglesias?
Even Pablo Iglesias, whose political party, Podemos, appears to have risen out of irrelevance on the back of chavista payments, is backing away from Maduro. That tells you something, doesn't it?
The Treatment Chavismo's Fellow Travellers Deserve
The chickens are coming home to roost for chavismo's international supporters. A brutal take-down in The Guardian ensures reputational costs are duly paid.
It's different when it happens in your neighborhood
Our very own Emiliana Duarte takes to The New York Times to explain what it's like when the crisis arrives on your doorstep.
Par for the curse
The final entry on our Caracas Chronicles Book Club selection: “The Oil Curse,” by Michael Ross.
Secretary General of the OAS slams Maduro in press release
The Secretary General of the OAS ripped Maduro's guts and had them for lunch with this press release.
Telesur feels the sting (and the hegemony too)
Hegemony member Telesur has turned to a pledge drive to save them from "economic an political prosecution" (Chavista code for "going broke"). How's the State's media apparatus really doing?
The Cycle
Mother and father were born into poverty. They worked hard, they helped the country rise and the country helped them rise with it. But now, it seems the cycle's back where it started.
Echa tu Cuento
Venezuela está en el ojo del huracán mediático internacional. Este es el momento para compartir tus cuentos. Ven y ayúdanos.
Hell is in Anzoátegui State
Nicholas Casey's eyewitness account for the New York Times of conditions at Luis Razetti hospital in Barcelona will shake you to the core.
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