Julio Borges's stint as head of the National Assembly is off to a bad start, as successive votes in the Assembly yesterday left the facture at the heart of the opposition in plain sight.
Your daily briefing for Monday, January 9th, 2017. Courtesy of Eddy.
Julio Borges has been preparing for a job like president of the National Assembly for years, but with huge visibility, little power, and conflicting pressures from the right and from the left...it may just be Mission Impossible.
Our man in Maracay describes life under Governor Tareck El Aissami, who's just been named Nicolás Maduro's Vice-president, and could well be his successor.
Primero Justicia's Julio Borges steps up to the National Assembly's Chairmanship...and we're liveblogging it.
It takes travelling to smaller cities to grasp how malignant the tumor of state-delivered groceries has really grown.
A deep, deep dive into Caracas Chronicles's archives last year. Man, so much happened!
Caraqueños have always known, the place to go for good, affordable clothes in the west of Caracas was the big La Hormiga market in El Cementerio. Or, well, it always had been.
We have a new monster to slay, and we will do it together. See you in 2017. Now, where is my sword?
As 2016 comes to a close, we notice another significant spike in lootings and people taking justice into their own hands. Here is the gruesome balance of a year's worth of Maduro social and economic policy.
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