Not Your 2015 Digital Media Outlet
We onboarded fresh blood and are resuscitating blogging. It feels a bit like a back-to-origins album by an old songwriter, but it’s not the same. Check it out
Life
Maduro Tries to Cheat in Human Rights Examination, Gets Caught Red Handed
The United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela released its fourth comprehensive analysis on the country’s human rights situation, a detailed account on how the culture of systematic abuse changed to remain the same
Atrocities are Still Happening in Venezuela
More and more governments in the world are working to release Maduro from international isolation, as if nothing has happened. But the International Criminal Court is still working, and human rights continue to be under severe threat
The Oldest Lake in South America is Dying
After the lemma epidemic of previous years, a new pest (verdin) is plaguing Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. The reason: oil leaks and human activity
Patria Dearest: Fortnights
We found the strangest of places to have our weekly family reunion: Fortnite
Patria Dearest: Toyota es Toyota
My family is returning to Venezuela for the first time in 8 years. I’m writing a series of blogs about my kids’ first encounter with la patria
Patria Dearest
My family is returning to Venezuela for the first time in 8 years. I’m writing a series of blogs about my kids’ first encounter with la patria
Explainer: ICC Will Open an Office in Caracas
As a signatory of the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court, the Maduro regime is forced to allow Karim Khan’s office to provide permanent technical assistance, with a team in the field reporting to him
Mental Health Institutions Turned Into Pigpens
Less visible than the rest of our humanitarian crisis, the decline of all conditions in what’s left of public psychiatric wards has brought back horrendous practices from the past
Venezuelan Contemporary Art Breaks Out
Gego’s retrospective in New York’s Guggenheim is a small part of a wider effort by Venezuelan curators and artists of different generations to show the creative treasure still alive in Venezuela and the exiled communities
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