Introducing Caracas Chronicles en Español
Almost from the moment this blog launched – all the way back in the pre-YouTube internet Paleozoic of 2002 – people have been asking me when I’ll launch...
Life
Dismantling Allan Brewer-Carías
My review of Allan Brewer-Carías’s simply unreadable brick, Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela, is now up on TNR’s Book Review site. Fun bit: Perhaps Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela should be...
Deconstructing Giusti
Do not miss Setty’s epic post on Luis Giusti and the brewing scandal at Colombian private oil company Alange Energy. It’s compelling and – despite Setty’s best efforts...
Any Decision You Want, So Long As It's "Guilty" (Corrected)
Brazen violations of due process are a dime a dozen in revolutionary Venezuela, sure, but few can be quite so brazen as the effective judicial kidnapping of National...
¡Fuenteovejuna, señor!
Geolver Hernández. Luis Castaño. Ray Longaray. José Rafael Márquez Gamboa. Rafael Urdaneta. Luis Román. Jeferies Moreno García. Erwin Pulgar Barrios. Carlos Soto. José María Urdaneta Romero. No need...
Talk about talking
As the government starts calling for dialogue, you may get a distinct feeling of déjà vu. After all, isn’t this the exact same thing Chávez did the last...
File this under dog bites man
Hugo Chávez took a surprisingly moderate tone in Saturday’s State of the Union address. He even went out of his way to shake the hand of opposition deputies. Some...
Pobre Venezuela, Pobre Huguito
Censorship? Censorship?! No chico, you’re confused. We just have a system where the government gets to decide which Soap Operas you’re allowed to watch, and makes that decision...
Extraditing his own (Updated)
So today the government is gloating because they captured the mistress of one of the head honchos of the notorious Los Zetas drug cartel. Her lover, a Colombian...
Throwing his people under the bus
This morning, dozens of families who lost their homes last December took to the streets to protest. According to press reports, the group was complaining they have been...
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