New Caracas Chronicles contributor: Emiliana Duarte
Folks, please join me in welcoming our new Caracas Chronicles contributor, Emiliana Duarte, a unique voice and a terrific young talent. Emiliana, welcome to the madhouse. We’re excited...
Life
Juan Domingo Wolf-in-Cordero's Clothing?
Twitter is abuzz with rumors that the guy who’s just bought a controlling stake in the opposition news channel Globovision, an insurance magnate by the name of José Domingo Cordero,...
Chronicles of Lazy Journalism (or, Attn: @ReutersVzla )
Let us unpack this bit from Reuters‘ Simon Gardner and Terry Wade (with an assist from commenter Lucía.) “At one building in a wealthy corner of Caracas, people drank...
Draft Marquina
The consensus in the opposition seems to be that we’re not going to win a snap election amid this huge surge in sympathy for Chávez and his memory....
A rare moment of admission
It’s been easy to forget these last few days that all the “normal” problems of the country are still there just the same. Last week, for instance, Interior...
beyondbricolage
The FT’s beyondbrics blog asked me for a little guest post on why the Opposition found it so hard to resist Chávez’s authoritarian project. I don’t care much...
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Llegó la hora ... de pagarle a los chinos (Updated)
A publisher friend (more on that later) sent me a copy of José Toro Hardy’s Llegó la Hora, and I found a piece of news that I wasn’t aware...
The bits of chavismo that will survive Chávez
Over the last few months, I (along with everyone else in this business) have been fielding the same kind of requests: “can you write us 600 words on...
I'll see you in health!
A fortnight ago, one major public hospital of Western Caracas (the Periférico de Coche) was close to shutting down. Doctors and patients staged a loud protest from both inside...
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