"Sensation of Insecurity" Chronicles, cont.
As another weekend with an alarming number of violent deaths, the “sensation of insecurity” caught up with a high ranking Chavista: former Finance Minister and a current member of...
Life
Apagón con apagón se paga
Western provinces of Cuba (including the capital Havana) suffered a four hour electrical blackout last Sunday night. The official explanation by Cuban authorities is “…a failure in a...
The pran is dead. Long live the pran.
The night of September 6th witnessed a violent regime change inside Santa Ana Prison (in Tachira State): A shootout between rival factions ended with the deaths of the...
No manejamos ese tipo de información
by Erin Fletcher We’re not quite seated, but I’ve already launched into my well-rehearsed spiel. For perhaps the fifth time that day, I say I’m an economics professor...
No manejamos ese tipo de información
by Erin Fletcher We’re not quite seated, but I’ve already launched into my well-rehearsed spiel. For perhaps the fifth time that day, I say I’m an economics professor...
One day we'll have tough investigative media...like Nicaragua does.
Nicaragua’s Confidencial magazine has the scoop on corruption in Albanisa – Alba de Nicaragua, S.A. – a binational firm created with Venezuelan state capital. Though Albanisa has expanded...
Parallel campaign update
Before the campaign began in July, the Chavernment launched the “two-hearts’ strategy”: A elaborated PR campaign for the Executive branch (Venezuelan Heart), which contained elements that were similar...
No wonder tourists don't wanna come back here
Yesterday, Juan Cristobal picked apart a report from the BBC about the decline of foreign tourism in Venezuela. It’s an overdetermined problem: there’s more than one explanation, and each...
Yanosequépensar about the Yanomami Massacre
If a massacre happens in the middle of the jungle, and nobody’s there to see it, should it make a headline? This is the troubling question we’ve all...
"Sensation of Insecurity" Chronicles, ctd.
Simplicio Hernández, father of Delta Amacuro State governor Lizeta Hernández, was kidnapped last night in Tucupita by five individuals. He was himself governor of the state between 1979...
Caracas Chronicles is 100% reader-supported.
We’ve been able to hang on for 22 years in one of the craziest media landscapes in the world. We’ve seen different media outlets in Venezuela (and abroad) closing shop, something we’re looking to avoid at all costs. Your collaboration goes a long way in helping us weather the storm.
Donate