Six months on, do we miss him yet?
Back in December, just before news broke of El Comandante’s final, doomed Cuban surgery, I wrote this post, Well, guess what: none of the guys who’ll be fighting...
Politics
All in the family
At an emotional memorial service for the three-month anniversary of Hugo Chávez’s death, we see, placing their hands on the hallowed grave of the Comandante Supremo, in no...
Hugo Chávez: paragon of journalism
Today, Hugo Chávez won the 2013 Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award, three months after his passing to the day. The jury’s citation credits him for: “… the creation...
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”,...
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...
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