Hard-knock life in a "socialist city"
Not long ago, the Caracas housing complex known as Ciudad Caribia was being touted by the then-living comandante supremo as the model of a “21st Century socialist city”,...
Politics
What'll it be, Mr. Tracy? Deeply damaging interview or deeply damaging film?
Tim Tracy, the gringo documentary film-maker absurdly accused of espionage by the Maduro government, has just been expelled from Venezuela, after a few weeks in a SEBIN basement...
When in Rome...
I figure since Caracas Chronicles has always been at the forefront of new technology and stuff, we might as well get our readers used to the fact that...
So you wanna be a STATA monkey?
Ever dream of becoming a hardcore statahead, effortlessly crunching any amount of data that happens to come your way? Well, you’re in luck. Longtime friend of the blog...
How to track a zombie (Updated)
I wasn’t aware of the details leading up to the extraordinary admission by Socorro Hernández that, yes, indeed dead people voted in Venezuela. But thanks to leading Venezuelan...
The walking dead (Updated)
Ah, if it weren’t for revolutionary slips of the tongue. On the heels of Mario Silva-gate, CNE Board member Socorro Hernández lets us in on a little secret:...
Annals of Revolutionary Innovation: The E-Ration Book
Folks, it was inevitable, which is why it’s happened: the ration book is here, soon to be piloted in Maracaibo. The twist? It’s a database in the cloud...
Değil bir adım geri
The chavista model of the modern autocracy – dismantle democratic checks and balances while simultaneously keeping a democratic façade by winning elections – is possibly our only remaining...
The hegemons now go for the newspapers (Updated)
After the airwaves, it’s only natural that the people leading the communicational hegemony would set their sights on newspapers, looking to curb dissident voices and control the flow...
Let's-Flog-This-Dead-Horse-S'more Chronicles
Listen, I remember the criticisms from 2004 because I made a lot of them. When fraud claims came following the Recall Referendum then, they all seemed to be...
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