Say hello to my little comrade
As per usual, Quico and I see the unfolding scandal that is Diosdado Cabello way differently. While Quico thinks this whole charade is only of interest to historians, I...
Life
Aragua conflict enters new phase (Updated)
The current battle in Aragua State between the authorities and criminal gangs took a sudden shift for the worse after a massive police and military operation was held...
Grenades galore (Updated)
The last few days have been quite tense in Aragua State, as an undeclared conflict between criminal gangs and the authorities heats up. It all began last Thursday when...
Newsprint wars, memetic wars
Barquisimeto’s main newspaper El Impulso has announced that starting May 12th the paper will reduce its daily edition to only 8 pages. In an editorial, the paper explains...
Inside the hegemony: Huge but hollow
For all the coverage that Caracas Chronicles has given to the State’s communicational hegemony all these years, two things are certain: First, it has grown so large that...
Teodoro y Petkoff
A visibly frail Teodoro Petkoff was awarded the Ortega y Gasset Prize yesterday. The honor is given by the Spanish newspaper El País, and it is one of our...
Leave no trace behind
There are already plenty of reports recording what happened in the wave of protests last year, but a new one from the Human Rights Center of the Andres Bello Catholic...
Jailhouse Overload
In case you missed it, there was a hostage crisis last week at the Bolivarian National Police HQ in Caracas. A group of inmates took two officers as...
Begging for cocoa
“Pidiendo cacao” – literally, begging for cocoa – is Venezuelan slang for “asking for a freebie.” You know who’s “begging for cocoa” in a literal, not figurative sense?...
How I became a Hezboll-iever
Some of you may have noticed that we don’t always write about every story that goes around. This has to do with erring on the side of carefulness. After...
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