NPR's OnPoint Today (Updated)
Have a listen: Update: Here’s me (Juan) on Canadian TV. Here’s me on NPR. Here’s me on CNN Chile. Here’s me on the CBC. I’m kind of sick of myself.
Politics
Crazy Media Day (Updated)
Correction: I just finished on Al Jazeera English TV together with Miguel Octavio . I was on BBC World Service radio opposite Mark Weisbrot earlier – link to come. Update: Juan C. is going...
Swoooooon...
This is the greatest thing that’s happened in my career. </starryeyes> Also, I’m on KQED, an NPR affiliate in Northern California live right now. Update: and later, a second...
The Media Barrage Continues (Updated)
Had great fun on NPR’s On Point just now, alongside Rory Carroll and Cynthia Arnson. I think the program is (or will be) online to listen again, if you’re so...
Stepping forward
As it’s natural at a time like this, most pieces written about Chávez’s passing take a step back and consider his legacy in broad perspective. For my piece...
Hugo Chávez, 1954-2013
Dear Melanie, Natalia, and Cecilia, I’m writing this on a sunny, late-autumn morning in Santiago. You are out with your mother doing various things and, as has been...
Hugo Chávez is dead
Hugo Chávez, who transformed Venezuela from a deeply flawed democracy into a nearly flawless autocracy, is dead at 58. My thoughts on the way Fidel Castro shaped his...
Liveblog: Vice-President Maduro speaks
The gist: There were no big decisions announced, but this speech will surely be remembered for the delirious bit at the start where Maduro takes my post from...
Caracas Chronicles, The Book
It’s a project long in the making. Blogging the Revolution: Caracas Chronicles and the Hugo Chávez Era brings together the best of our work from the last ten...
The Possibility of an Island
So now it turns out President Chávez is (or is not – you know how these things are) spending his last days receiving hospice care on the tiny...
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