A Word on Blogs and Pogroms (UPDATED)
If, as the old cliché has it, “journalism is the first draft of history”, then blogging must be the note hurriedly scribbled on the napkin of history. A...
Life
Taming the shadow
These tumultuous days, as I was glued to Twitter, reading Facebook comments, listening to opinions on the street, and watching the students debate on CNNE, I finally “understood”...
The ongoing war on journalists
Much has been said about the enormous pressure the government has applied on both domestic and foreign media in the current crisis, but that’s not the entire story. Many...
The other side of Communicational Hegemony
Foreign observers have a hard time grasping how aggressively defamatory government propaganda in Venezuela can be. It is forced through all radio and TV outlets in compulsory, simultaneous broadcasts of indefinite duration.
The big black hole "al norte del Sur"
One of the things I’ve been doing this summer vacation is catching up on my academic reading. In doing so, I came across a paper by Santiago Levy...
The useless Insulza
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza finally opened his pie hole with respect to Venezuela … and he should have kept his mouth shut. In a letter long...
CaracasChronicles.comを日本語に翻訳しています
Key Caracas Chronicles stories about the recent crisis are now available in Japanese. Really. Thank you, Kanako!
The CNN Excuse (Third Update)
As the domestic media blackout continues, the government’s media hegemony has taken to targeting international news outlets. Last week, Colombian news channel NTN24 was summarily taken off of Venezuelan cable...
"Tío Simón" has left us
The acclaimed Simón Díaz, Venezuela’s foremost folk singer and all around national treasure, passed away this morning, according to this message from his daugther Bettsimar. He was 85. He will...
The media's shame
One of the good things about the current wave of protests is that they have underscored just how challenging it is going to be to get information on...
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