The Day I Stared My Inner Chavista In the Eye and Did Not Blink
Hugo Chávez saved me from the left. And by left, I mean, you know, la izquierda mal bañada. If Chávez hadn’t been President when I was in college, I would have spent my days playing Silvio Rodríguez...
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From Sochi with love
Boondoggles as non-traditional exports Now that we are done with the introductions and the sappy posts, let us get down to business. I came across this viral article from the Washington Post that...
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We'll always have Homeland, Hugo C.
(Editor’s note: We welcome a new addition to Caracas Chronicles, Raúl Stolk, @raulstolk. Raúl is an attorney, and I’ve long admired his writing in Prodavinci. I am thrilled he accepted an invitation to...
View ArticleThe Day I Stared My Inner Chavista In the Eye and Did Not Blink
Hugo Chávez saved me from the left. And by left, I mean, you know, la izquierda mal bañada. If Chávez hadn’t been President when I was in college, I would have spent my days playing Silvio Rodríguez...
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From Sochi with love
Boondoggles as non-traditional exports Now that we are done with the introductions and the sappy posts, let us get down to business. I came across this viral article from the Washington Post that...
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We'll always have Homeland, Hugo C.
(Editor’s note: We welcome a new addition to Caracas Chronicles, Raúl Stolk, @raulstolk. Raúl is an attorney, and I’ve long admired his writing in Prodavinci. I am thrilled he accepted an invitation to...
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Sh!tstorm Chronicles
Last night, while Maduro was rambling on TV about how he and Russia will stabilize world oil prices, the El Valle river flooded. Before signing off from his weekly TV show, the disaster was brought to...
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State of Emergency Declared in Táchira
Last night, Tarek el Aissami, ex-Minister of Justice and current Governor of Aragua, was in charge of reading part of the State of Emergency Decree which will rule over five municipalities of the...
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No country for French fries
“Mommy, can we get some French fries?” asked my daughter as we drove past the massive granite monolith that is the McDonald’s store of La Castellana in Caracas. “There are no French fries in Venezuela,...
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El Aissami Police Holds Summary Executions, Governor Blames Capitalism
This shaky footage, clearly the work of a trembling hand, is good enough to make out the basics: In broad daylight, in an alley behind some buildings, three or four lifeless bodies lay scattered across...
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Another Return to Caracas Chronicle
Caught the red eye to Barcelona. Barcelona, Anzoategui (East Venezuela, that is). Blood shot eyes. Mosquitoes big as helicopters, and the wait. That absurd timebending wait while an immigration officer...
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Chávez Burns in Sinamaica
Milagros Socorro broke Twitter yesterday with her reporting of a guajiro upheaval in the border town of Sinamaica. The Zuliana journo summarized the story in 26 tweets and then filled in the blanks...
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No gender quota for Primary-Elected Candidates
On Tuesday the CNE – our very neutral elections authority – explained that the gender quota would not apply to the candidates elected in the primaries. Seems like someone in the government party did...
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De la pluma de Ernesto Villegas: Abril, The Movie
La Villa del Cine is working on a movie about Hugo Chavéz’s brief deposing during April (11th, 12th, and 13th) 2002. This is a core moment in Chavista mythology, it revamped Hugo Chávez’s weakened...
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Dark Days Ahead
We are three weeks into the race for the parliamentary elections (scheduled for December 6th) and the Venezuelan government has already imposed three over-the-top hurdles for the opposition. First, the...
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Six Hundred Something
Not like we’ll be posting the price of the black market Dollar every time it spikes, but just one week ago it hit the 500 mark. DolarToday’s closing rate for this evening was Bs. 611.88. That’s a hell...
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If BOOBS Could Kill
Remember Caraemuerto? Luidig Ochoa (a.k.a. Caraemuerto) was the alleged criminal in recovery who survived fifteen shots (three in the face), created a successful web series, and the love interest of...
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Diosdado’s guessing game
It’s been a week since the Diosdado/Shannon picture show and we’ve read many hypothesis over what had to happen to get that photo opp. Both Jackson Diehl and Heinz Dietrich believe it had to do with...
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#BCVleaks: Central Bank employees air the dirty laundry
Nelson Merentes, the President of the Central Bank of Venezuela (“BCV”), seems to have a bit of a soft mutiny in the ranks. A group from the bank’s technical staff has been leaking information to the...
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Human Rights Activists Under Siege
Melanio Escobar is an honest man, a good father, and a stubborn human rights activist. We had a chat last year in the midst of the student protests, due to his viral coverage of the imprisonment of...
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