Lightbulb Fiasco
Way back in 2006, the comandante eterno launched a brand new mission: Energy Revolution (Misión Revolución Energética), which intended to promote “the efficient and rational use of electricity”....
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It's human rights week at Caracas Chronicles
The most recent report by Human Rights Watch on the protests in Venezuela comprehensibly dismantles the government’s line of defense on allegations of human rights abuses. In page after page of...
Maduro's Barbarism, documented in granular detail
It’s not that those of us who follow Venezuela are in any doubt about the scale of Human Rights violations the country has witnessed this year. It’s that,...
Press and Chain
Freedom House just released its Freedom of the Press 2014 report. The tittle: “Press Freedom at the Lowest Level in a Decade”. And Venezuela is leading the race to...
Ramo Verde To You
Today, Leopoldo López is celebrating - if that's the right word - his 43rd birthday from solitary confinement in Ramo Verde military prison, which he has called home for 70 days now as he awaits trial for charges of arson and criminal instigation.
Cadivi dies, and so does the middle class
(Since Cadivi is gasping its final breaths surrounded by controversy and not a minute too soon, this guest post by Iesa professor Pedro Luis Rodríguez could not be better timed. Rodríguez...
A Morning in Ramo Verde
I recently made the hike to Ramo Verde military prison in a futile exercise to get a delegation of foreign officials to verify the human rights conditions of political prisoners jailed inside. We didn't get in, but we got to meet some sheep and a great recommendation for good steak in Los Teques.
A clarification on the @CaracasChron account
Some of you may know that, aside from editing the blog, I also handle the CC Twitter account, @CaracasChron. Aside from that, I have my own personal account,...
Venezuela as a hot-button campaign issue... just not in Venezuela
On May 4th, Panama will go to the polls to elect a new president and all 71 members of its single-chamber National Assembly. While the electoral campaign there...
A rare judicial win for the opposition
Article 68 of the Venezuelan Constitution reads as follows: “Citizens have the right to demonstrate peacefully and without weapons, with no other requirements than those established in the law. The...
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