Jail House Night-Club
Remember that nightclub in Tocorón Prison from last year? Well, it now has serious competition from a brand new place inside El Rodeo I in Guatire, just outside Caracas....
Life
The short version
So this is sort of remarkable.
Venetur Hotels: where politics come first
Tourism Minister Alejandro Fleming ordered via Twitter that Venetur (State-owned company in charge of tourism services, including 14 hotels across the country) not to hire “…anyone who makes...
"Ley Seca" Chronicles (Updated)
The ten-day ban on selling alcoholic beverages, ordered (and later extended) by decree as part of the national mourning period caused economic losses for liquor stores and booze distributors....
Bring Caracas Chronicles Home With You
Caracas Chronicles is more than just a blog – it’s a unique community where people from all kinds of backgrounds can come together to engage the issues of...
Joaquín Crespo is missing
The family mausoleum of 19th century General and President Joaquín Crespo (1841-1898), located in Caracas’s main public cemetery (Cementerio General del Sur) has been found empty. The remains...
David Frum thinks our book is essential, so go buy it!
An exceedingly generous review of our book, by The Daily Beast’s David Frum. The money quote: If [the authors’] telling is correct, whatever else Chavismo is, it’s not sustainable...
My response to Eva Golinger
No, Chávez didn’t make dreams come true for the poor. He didn’t improve their lives. Instead, he gave them money, and made them miserable on the side. My...
From "Cult of Personality" to straight-up Cult
Chávez biographer Alberto Barrera Tyszka really nails the strangeness of our current predicament in this OpEd in El Nacional today. The takeaway? We’re no longer really “the opposition”; at...
Lukoil learns the hard way
Andrei Kuzyayev, an executive of Russian oil giant Lukoil, told Reuters last week that Venezuela could boost its oil production in the next few years, but to do so...
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