The big black hole "al norte del Sur"
One of the things I’ve been doing this summer vacation is catching up on my academic reading. In doing so, I came across a paper by Santiago Levy...
Life
The useless Insulza
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza finally opened his pie hole with respect to Venezuela … and he should have kept his mouth shut. In a letter long...
CaracasChronicles.comを日本語に翻訳しています
Key Caracas Chronicles stories about the recent crisis are now available in Japanese. Really. Thank you, Kanako!
The CNN Excuse (Third Update)
As the domestic media blackout continues, the government’s media hegemony has taken to targeting international news outlets. Last week, Colombian news channel NTN24 was summarily taken off of Venezuelan cable...
"Tío Simón" has left us
The acclaimed Simón Díaz, Venezuela’s foremost folk singer and all around national treasure, passed away this morning, according to this message from his daugther Bettsimar. He was 85. He will...
The media's shame
One of the good things about the current wave of protests is that they have underscored just how challenging it is going to be to get information on...
It's the institutions, stupid!
This summer I’ve been reading Acemoglu and Robinson’s “Why Nations Fail.” It’s a terrific read in case you haven’t gotten your hands on it – Ángel Alayón did...
Torture, Rape and Ransom
As the student protests continue, shocking stories of the detained are hitting social media and some news outlets. Detainees are not allowed to see their family members, some students have...
Who killed Juancho Montoya?
BBC Mundo’s Daniel Pardo offers a chronicle of the funeral held last Friday for Juan Montoya, one of the three people killed by gunfire on Wednesday’s protest in...
One man's trash is another man's...trash
Heres a piece of news that got buried under the week’s turmoil – the San Josecito dumping ground has been ablaze since the beginning of February (yet again) causing the...
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