Morphing into a Police State, Venezuela Arrests Opposition Legislator
This will be remembered as the week Venezuela shed the last vestiges of its institutional structures and devolved into a straight-up police state.
Politics
Venezuela's Opposition Appears Badly Divided on National Assembly Floor
Julio Borges's stint as head of the National Assembly is off to a bad start, as successive votes in the Assembly yesterday left the facture at the heart of the opposition in plain sight.
"Pronto se va"
Your daily briefing for Monday, January 9th, 2017. Courtesy of Eddy.
Being Julio Borges
Julio Borges has been preparing for a job like president of the National Assembly for years, but with huge visibility, little power, and conflicting pressures from the right and from the left...it may just be Mission Impossible.
Life Under Tareck
Our man in Maracay describes life under Governor Tareck El Aissami, who's just been named Nicolás Maduro's Vice-president, and could well be his successor.
Borgestopia: LiveBlog
Primero Justicia's Julio Borges steps up to the National Assembly's Chairmanship...and we're liveblogging it.
In San Juan de los Morros, it's the CLAPs way or the highway
It takes travelling to smaller cities to grasp how malignant the tumor of state-delivered groceries has really grown.
Everything that Happened in 2016, Part 1
A deep, deep dive into Caracas Chronicles's archives last year. Man, so much happened!
El Cementerio: Where New Year's Bargains Go To Die
Caraqueños have always known, the place to go for good, affordable clothes in the west of Caracas was the big La Hormiga market in El Cementerio. Or, well, it always had been.
Courage
We have a new monster to slay, and we will do it together. See you in 2017. Now, where is my sword?
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