A Spanish-language blog roll call
Over at cronicasdecaracas.net, we’re trying to compile a list of the best Spanish-language opposition-minded Venezuelan blogs. Got any suggestions? Sound off on the comments board.
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$%*& my Japanese wife says
My wife laughed hard at the tragic, yet still unmistakably funny story of the dozens of high-society Venezuelans coming back from a throw-the-house-out-the-window, no-expenses-spared Punta Cana wedding with...
Finding the story in our squalid news
One of the things that I find most disappointing about the Venezuelan press is how they frequently miss the important aspects of the stories they pretend to report....
A Manifesto for the Spanish-language blog
Over on CaracasChronicles-eE.com, Quico just posted an absolutely untranslatable manifesto of what exactly we’re aiming for with the blog in Spanish, filled with Orwell quotes, coños, and vainas....
Introducing Caracas Chronicles en Español
Almost from the moment this blog launched – all the way back in the pre-YouTube internet Paleozoic of 2002 – people have been asking me when I’ll launch...
Dismantling Allan Brewer-Carías
My review of Allan Brewer-Carías’s simply unreadable brick, Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela, is now up on TNR’s Book Review site. Fun bit: Perhaps Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela should be...
Deconstructing Giusti
Do not miss Setty’s epic post on Luis Giusti and the brewing scandal at Colombian private oil company Alange Energy. It’s compelling and – despite Setty’s best efforts...
Any Decision You Want, So Long As It's "Guilty" (Corrected)
Brazen violations of due process are a dime a dozen in revolutionary Venezuela, sure, but few can be quite so brazen as the effective judicial kidnapping of National...
¡Fuenteovejuna, señor!
Geolver Hernández. Luis Castaño. Ray Longaray. José Rafael Márquez Gamboa. Rafael Urdaneta. Luis Román. Jeferies Moreno García. Erwin Pulgar Barrios. Carlos Soto. José María Urdaneta Romero. No need...
Talk about talking
As the government starts calling for dialogue, you may get a distinct feeling of déjà vu. After all, isn’t this the exact same thing Chávez did the last...
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