What will President Trump mean for Venezuela?
So it's supposed to be my job to help you figure out what the Trump presidency [[[deep shudder]]] will mean for Venezuela. Except I can't do my job, because trying to predict how Donald Trump will behave in any give context is a lost cause.
President Trump
However much trouble we thought we were in, we're in way worse trouble than that.
A Dictatorship Without a Dictator
The people who run Venezuela didn't "rise" to power. They found power pre-stolen, in the form of a state organized around a single man who's no longer there.
A Different Kind of Hospital Exposé
A large hospital in Valencia gets the New Yorker treatment this week, at the start a long piece by William Finnegan that’s hard to do justice to with a...
HRW Takes Stock of the Crisis
Human Rights Watch takes an in-depth look into food shortages, a crippled healthcare system and protests, and urges regional governments to press Maduro to address the crisis once for all.
On This Weekend's Episode of Chaos...
Your daily briefing for Monday, November 7th, 2016. Brought to you by Eddy.
Why the black market dollar's gone haywire
The recent spike in the black market dollar has taken some by surprise. It shouldn't have: the minute we heard Maduro talking about messing with the banks' reserve requirement to fund "urban agriculture", we reached for our wallets.
1999-2001: The Chávez Years We Forgot To Remember
A Facebook post on Alejandro Velasco's wall sends me into a deep reverie, as I realize "wait, half the people who read Caracas Chronicles probably don't remember what the early Chávez years were like."
The Student Movement won't come back overnight
The Movimiento Estudiantil had its first call to the streets independent from political parties in some years. It wasn't all that, but it's a start.
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