Gaddafi passed on Turiamo
There are conflicting news reports about the fate of Muammar Gaddafi. Some say he has been injured and captured. Others say he has died. Regardless, he’s toast. [Update:...
Life
Recipe for polarization
1. Make otherwise sensible people talk about the death of Chávez. 2. Use the courts to pick on the opposition’s leaders and slowly take away their rights. 3....
The reason I haven't been posting the last few days...
Expect a series of rambling, half-coherent posts time-stamped 3:58 a.m. or so over the next few weeks.
Treason.jpg
The Cuban flag proudly waves next to the Venezuelan tricolor inside a Venezuelan military compound. HT: Memo Arocha, photo courtesy of El Carabobeño. PS: Busy today with work,...
A question for our enlightened readers
I’ve been mulling a post about Venezuela’s centuries-old claim on the lands west of the Essequibo river. But I have a confession to make: the whole topic bores...
Catatumbo Chronicles
Saudade alert! Great stuff… courtesy of ABC News Nightline.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime to be labeled an imperialist lackey in 3...2...
UNODC’s first global study on homicide has just been published. Save for gang-ravaged Honduras and El Salvador, nobody comes close to Venezuela. And in South America? Eat our...
5,000 posts of solitude
This is Caracas Chronicles’ 5,000th post. I don’t know what that means, frankly, just like I don’t know what this blog means. I just know I enjoy writing...
Small Walls
And now for something completely different: my wife Kanako’s first show in Caracas opens this Sunday, October 9th, at 11 a.m., at the Parque Cultural Hacienda La Trinidad....
Castaways at a funeral
Now that the Capybara has compared us to La Hojilla, I’ve been thinking about good’ol CAP. Acción Democrática, the party he belonged to most of his life before...
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