GEHA’s Best of 2018, Part II (April - June)
We continue with the Caracas Chronicles’ best pieces from the second quarter of the year, with the May 20 presidential “election” as the main event, for better or worse.
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GEHA’s Best of 2018, Part I (January - March)
2018 was quite a challenging year for Venezuela, but Caracas Chronicles was there to cover its different angles. Here’s some of the best writing from the first quarter of the year.
Paris Is… Burning?
Sick of the chaos in Venezuela, I ran off to Paris. And then protests seemed to follow me here. My PTSD’d self could barely handle it, at first. But then I saw the French have a whole different way to do street chaos... nothing at all like ours.
This Isn’t Funny
Hugo Chávez’s humor was always crass, but the guy had the charisma to sort of pull of a shtick. Under Nicolás Maduro, attempts at comedy have devolved into sheer cruelty — with mirth supplanted by insult.
Nicolás, Democracies Are Not Explained
During a mandatory broadcast this afternoon, Nicolás Maduro called himself a “free and independent president”, accused his usual enemies of plotting against him and said that the economy is going great, thank you very much.
Canaima’s Pemon People Mourn, and Take Hostages
Under unprecedented onslaught from illegal miners and DGCIM, indigenous people in Venezuela’s South East have had enough.
What If They Threw An Election And Nobody Came?
4,900 posts are up for election across Venezuela today. Well, “election.” Amid never-before-seen levels of voter disengagement, municipal council candidates struggle to get noticed. Hyperinflation, violence and the CNE killed the mood.
It's the Populism, Stupid!
It's the debate that won't go away: what is it about chavismo that so thoroughly wrecked Venezuela? Is it Marxism? Crime? Incompetence? It's none of those. It's the populism
2008-2018 In Pictures: An Inventory of Catastrophe
From the Cordonazo de San Francisco to Leopoldo López’s arrest, a stroll through the images that defined the second decade of revolution.
1998-2008 In Pictures: A Country Interrupted
What was the first decade of chavismo like? Photographers know.
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