The Animalfarmification of Our Politics
Univisión’s Manuel Rueda is on the case, Imagine the following script: A wildly popular leader of a tropical country wins an election and then heads to a foreign...
Politics
Villegas drops the communicational ball
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas took his anger to the twittersphere yesterday to denounce an “unscrupulous” alleged fake photo of Rosinés, the comandante presidente’s youngest daughter, with rapper Nicki...
Read this
Israel Centeno in El País, (an English version is here.) Un gobierno autocrático que se ha adueñado de todas las instituciones del Estado no informa, no dice la verdad;...
Brazil turning the screws
Oh yeah, they’re really letting Maduro have it now. </irony>
The gang's all here!
It has been a crowded weekend in Havana so far. First, two Latin American presidents tried unsuccessfully to visit the comandante presidente: Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and...
The day after
January 10th has passed. Chávez did not show up for his swearing in, but his “people” took the oath in his place, because the people are Chávez, and...
What do you call a problem like Maduro?
January 10th creates a conundrum for us at Caracas Chronicles. On the one hand, we share most of your indignation. Maduro’s term ends today, but the TSJ has...
This is what Capriles is thinking
OK, so we all know this is a kind of coup. Keeping Maduro on as the not-encargado-and-yet-obviously-in-charge (a.k.a., de facto) president is about as legitimate in my eyes...
Surely Bertolt Brecht could not have done better...
A few years ago, Teodoro Petkoff made audiences guffaw with his bon mot about how, more and more, the Chávez government treats the Constitution as though it were...
The TSJ rubber-stamps the Maduro doctrine (Updated)
After three and a half hours of waiting, the president of the Venezuelan Supreme Court Luisa Estela Morales has declared in a press conference that President Hugo Chavez...
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