Learned pessimism
As a new year dawns, we can all agree that things are looking dour for Venezuela. The economic outlook is ghastly, and the political one is not brighter....
Learned pessimism
As a new year dawns, we can all agree that things are looking dour for Venezuela. The economic outlook is ghastly, and the political one is not brighter....
2014: The year in review
This has been a bloody, complicated year for Venezuela. The nation wasn’t done ringing the new year, and already a wave of protests was bien announced. The phenomenon termed #LaSalida degenerated...
Thought crimes
Some days it seems as though chavismo is coming apart at the seams. Their unhinged responses to the most feeble of slights is a gift to their critics....
The Cuban dissidence speaks
This video deserves to be seen. In it, four prominent members of the Cuban dissidence movement make their case. They basically feel betrayed by Obama, in the words...
teleSUR, the Workers' Paradise? A Caracas Chronicles exclusive
(The full 5,500-word leaked email in Spanish and English) As teleSUR prepares to launch an English-language satellite station in July 2015 (its 10th anniversary), there is unrest in the...
We applaud the sanctions
Up until now, we´ve resisted taking a position on the Menendez-Rubio act imposing sanctions on Venezuelan human rights violators. That stops now: all of the CC bloggers agree that...
Lessons from the Cuban snow job
It is too soon to tell just what the recent détente between the US and Cuba will produce, but there are already a few lessons the folks currently governing...
Live-blogging the Cuban thaw-mageddon
The decades-old feud between the US and Cuba is coming to an end. After exchanging political prisoners – one Alan Gross in exchage for three Cubans held in the...
Hausmann Presidente
A translation of a delicious put-down of our cerebrally-limited President, courtesy of Harvard Prof. Ricardo Hausmann: After a trip to Albania, South Africa, India, and Kazakhstan, where I have...
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