The illusion of inevitability
(You can find the original Spanish version of this post at Alejandro Tarre’s Blog.) Two items: 1) Hugo Chávez in a recent interview published in Uruguay’s La República: I...
Life
The View From Your Window (is back!)
Mérida, Valera, 10:30 a.m. (To participate, send the View from Your Window, along with the location and the time the photo was taken, to caracaschronicles at fastmail dot...
Nine years on
Yes folks, it’s really been nine years. Really. There’s nothing more to add at this point. It’s all been said, and lied about, and set straight, and lied about...
The Peruvian Debacle
I spent most of last night in a state of catatonic shock at what happened in Peru. Just slowly rocking back and forward in my chair muttering “no,...
Embracing the challenge
Some of our readers have expressed concern about our 100-post challenge. Why, you ask, should we privilege quantity over quality? What’s the point in doing it now, given...
100 posts, five days, no mercy
Both Juan and I have had serious deadlines in our regular work. But those deadlines will be over in a few hours. However, rather than ease our way...
Hugo Chávez: Toxic Brand
How toxic has the Chávez brand gotten in Latin America? So toxic that even the candidates the guy has bought and paid for are forced to distance themselves repeatedly...
"I knew they had guns, I didn't know they had Uzis..."
Prison reform is one of those inherently unpopular issues: anger over crime runs so deep that people, by and large, don’t want to hear about it. Which is...
A well regulated militia being deeply threatening to the security of an unfree State...
Over in Spanish, I think the unthinkable about Chávez’s plan to press absolutely everybody into serve in his militia…
The Dickensian Aspect
Rory Carroll’s written a superlative article on Venezuela’s gangland violence for The Guardian, together with this arresting, difficult to watch short film and this photo gallery by Sean...
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