Caracas Chronicles

Years ago, chavismo ceded territory to gangs with the presumed goal of convincing them to leave their guns. The result, as this recent story shows, is criminal kingdoms

This story is one of many showing how the chavista regime used a combination of anarchy and legality to take over productive lands, just to leave them in ruins.

With a measure informed by solidarity and pragmatism, Colombia granted citizenship to more than 24,000 babies born of Venezuelan parents, who were at risk of being stateless.

Beijing won’t mediate between Maduro and Guaidó, because it’s not interested in Venezuela. But it can help with recovering our democracy, if its current inaction impacts its interests.

Chavismo surrenders to the Cuban blockade narrative, the opposition tries to sell it as a way to pressure the regime and the population is scared. What’s this new Executive Order, really?

The man sitting at Miraflores Palace is so distant from ordinary Venezuelans that he recommends a series on Netflix, a service most Venezuelans can’t enjoy, because they can’t afford it.

Today we unveil Cinco8, a brand new Caracas Chronicles sister site in Spanish aimed at Venezuelans both inside and outside the lines you see on the map.

As two businessmen behind the CLAP food program are on the spotlight, Caracas Chronicles spoke with Armando.Info, the outlet exposing them—at a huge cost

He was way more than a kinetic artist: he delved into the study of the theory and perception of color. Losing him affects not only Venezuelan culture, it’s a global loss.

Despite its realist calculations in geopolitics, the Asian superpower upheld civilian protection and humanitarian assistance. That could serve to break a deadlock that only favors the Maduro regime

Children in Maracaibo don’t know what it’s like to live without chavismo, and they’re also forgetting what their lives were like with power, water, movie theatres or regular school.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill for TPS for Venezuelans—but it’s still uncertain how close the bill is to becoming a law.

Yubreilis was one of the few who came back to her Sucre village, after the boat she sailed on to a new life in Trinidad wrecked at Boca del Dragón strait. This is her story.

Caracas-born Carlos Cruz-Diez, one of the most important visual artists of the 20th century, is dead. He turned science into art, and art into a game we all could take part of.

Venezuelans abroad have to endure, among the usual hardships of forced migration, being called by the Left all kinds of things just for rejecting the regime that destroyed their country.

The state of Lara, the fifth in the number of demonstrations during 2019, is also the one where FAES has killed more people. People live in terror there.

The latest sanctions against businessman Alex Saab and the network involved in the CLAP food program are in part thanks to the work of investigative journalism site Armando.Info, in a costly struggle for the truth.

This is a celebration of the spirit of a place where people insist on going out at night, amid many real dangers. This is a celebration of Caracas.

This story, which happened during the national blackout of March, focuses on the drama for a single family and the extent of the complex humanitarian emergency, in all its horror.

Venezuelans struggled on July 22nd with the fourth nationwide blackout this year. As many fear the aftershock of the event will be felt throughout the week, the Maduro regime blames an "electromagnetic attack" by the U.S.

Four young engineers decided to put 350 of the most popular people of modern Venezuela to fight the only way Venezuelans like their fights these days: on Twitter.

An effective campaign contributed the beloved Caracas Children’s Museum to reopen its doors right on time for Children’s Day after 350 meters of cable were stolen from its facilities

Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, many of them children, are camping near the Peruvian-Chilean border, in a true limbo of paperwork, suffering and chaos.

If things weren’t absurd enough, now Nicolás Maduro meets with an Indian guru the same way he meets with the UN’s Human Rights High Commissioner. And the spirit-man himself? He’s exactly what you’d expect.

Cuban-American scholar Javier Corrales points out that the neighboring nations have been relatively up for the challenge regarding the Venezuelan diaspora, but for how long will that last?

In Barquisimeto, the sophisticated traditional cuisine has been replaced by survival with alternative ingredients and artisanal cookers.

On July 16th, 1799, Alexander von Humboldt arrived to Venezuela, with his fellow scientist, Aimé Bonpland, to start a voyage full of memorable findings.

The spontaneous dollarization, accelerated by blackouts and remittances, is threatening to restrict the legal currency to those who are forced to use it, and to distort the economy even more than it already is.

After getting used to spending days and nights queuing up for fuel, Mérida citizens must now adapt to the classic socialist move of setting restrictions in every service station.

Our political discussion and the limits on free press have given more resonance to outlandish interpretations of what’s happening. A new paper explains why their impact could increase further, thanks to state-sponsored disinformation.