This is the sound of wasteful culture
Caracas has been hosting a music festival in the last few days, courtesy of the Mayor of western Caracas (Libertador Municipality) Jorge Rodríguez. The former CNE president/Vice-President/head of...
Life
Live-blogging Maria Corina's day
Opposition legislator Maria Corina Machado will go to the Prosecutor’s Office today to be charged with attempting to kill Nicolás Maduro. She may be imprisoned today. We’ll be live blogging...
María Corina, and a unified theory of rationed repression
Much in the same way that the Venezuelan regime has mastered the art of rationing basic staples just enough as to elicit a tolerable resignation from its people, so has it mastered the art of rationing political persecution to remain just shy of becoming a dictatorship in the eyes of the international community.
Red justice in numbers
The Venezuelan Judiciary has become a rubber stamp of the Executive Branch. But now we have the truth in cold, hard numbers… Four Venezuelan lawyers went to work proving...
A Superb Book, Lost in Translation
Cross-posted on CaracasChronicles in Japanese. This April, as the streets of Caracas, San Cristobal and many other Venezuelan cities were alive with protests, I felt powerfully called on...
Overkill is thy enemy
One of the challenges of writing about Venezuela for a foreign audience is that while your readers may be less informed about the country than you are, they...
Uribana Crisis Update
The latest official number of inmates killed by intoxication (combination of drugs and alcohol) earlier this week in Uribana Prison has reached 35, with another 20 in critical...
A beautiful boondoggle
We all love music. We all love beautiful architecture. And, in spite of occasional criticism now and then, we all think El Sistema is – overall – a...
New Uribana = old Uribana (Third Update)
The last few days have been really tense both inside and outside of Uribana Prison, near the city of Barquisimeto, where I live. This was where the second-worst prison riot...
"Malandros" as a national security threat
Of all the disasters Venezuelans currently face, crime is by far the most pressing. Yet for all its seriousness, how well do we understand the nature of the...
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