Tiempos de Dictadura: A great Venezuelan documentary
Here’s another thing you almost never see: a Venezuelan documentary in the local cinema. It’s rare to find them in theaters for a reason, you’d have to be...
Gustavo Hernández A.
Guaro journalist and CaracasChron veteran.
Dirty campaign update
Here’s something you almost never see in a Venezuelan campaign: a full-on, U.S. style negative smear ad. A recent post explained that Chávez has three parallel campaigns going...
"Sensation of Insecurity" Chronicles, cont.
As another weekend with an alarming number of violent deaths, the “sensation of insecurity” caught up with a high ranking Chavista: former Finance Minister and a current member of...
Apagón con apagón se paga
Western provinces of Cuba (including the capital Havana) suffered a four hour electrical blackout last Sunday night. The official explanation by Cuban authorities is “…a failure in a...
The pran is dead. Long live the pran.
The night of September 6th witnessed a violent regime change inside Santa Ana Prison (in Tachira State): A shootout between rival factions ended with the deaths of the...
Parallel campaign update
Before the campaign began in July, the Chavernment launched the “two-hearts’ strategy”: A elaborated PR campaign for the Executive branch (Venezuelan Heart), which contained elements that were similar...
No wonder tourists don't wanna come back here
Yesterday, Juan Cristobal picked apart a report from the BBC about the decline of foreign tourism in Venezuela. It’s an overdetermined problem: there’s more than one explanation, and each...
"Sensation of Insecurity" Chronicles, ctd.
Simplicio Hernández, father of Delta Amacuro State governor Lizeta Hernández, was kidnapped last night in Tucupita by five individuals. He was himself governor of the state between 1979...
Lost in the supermarket
The Koma hypermarket in Puerto Ordaz was taken over by the Chavernment in 2010, as part of the expropiation of Frigorificos Ordaz S.A. (Friosa). Almost a year later,...
The Many Downsides of Building in a Mad Rush
The Chavernment’s housing program, Gran Mision Vivienda Venezuela is still going full throttle, but its path has been rocky: damage to the enviroment, workplace accidents and workers mad...
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