The hidden numbers of Chávez’s legacy, by @danielragua
(Friend of the blog Daniel Raguá sends us this corollary to Dorothy’s latest post) Never mind inflation, scarcity, and all the rest. Here are some hidden nuggest in Venezuela’s recent economic history:...
View ArticleAll because of a broken fingernail
(A reader sends us this translation of an interview with Marvinia Jiménez that appeared in El Carabobeño, a Valencia daily, a few weeks ago. Marvinia was brutally attacked at a protest, and is now...
View ArticleIncitatii Bolivariani
… or a modest proposal for Venezuela (A guest post by friend-of-the-blog Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez) The Emperor Gaius Caligula Caesar enjoys a hallowed a place within popular imagination. With the...
View ArticleVenezuela’s orphaned parents
(A guest post by Daniela Alexandra Porat, a Toronto-based Venezuelan ex-pat and CC reader) Venezuela’s current crisis finds a mirror in the stories of the country’s padres huérfanos. These so-called...
View ArticleIn search of lost empathy
(A guest post by friend-of-the-blog and sometimes-collaborator Moraima García) As a long-time reader of the blog, I have to confess I was more than a tad skeptic when Juan announced where he wanted to...
View ArticleCadivi dies, and so does the middle class
(Since Cadivi is gasping its final breaths surrounded by controversy and not a minute too soon, this guest post by Iesa professor Pedro Luis Rodríguez could not be better timed. Rodríguez takes on...
View ArticleChavismo under the orientalist lens
(This is a guest post by Venezuelan anthropologist Pedro Manrique. We haven’t done one of these in a long time, and I kind of dug it. I hope you do too) Chavismo under the Orientalist Lens, by Pedro...
View ArticleThe Way Back Home
(A few weeks ago, I got an e-mail from a Venezuelan currently studying journalism in New York City, and yadda-yadda-yadda, Caracas Chronicles has a summer intern! Meet Rachelle Krygier. I am looking...
View ArticleWe still have vernissages in Caracas
(When I was in Bonn last week, I got the chance to meet Carmen Victoria Méndez, a journalist who used to cover the Caracas arts beat for El Nacional and Tal Cual. Carmen is now living in Germany, but...
View ArticleHow the Revolution Ate the Joropo-Playing Japanese Students
A special investigation by Kanako Noda. This post is available in Japanese here. 日本語でも読めます。 Este artículo está disponible en español aquí. The four Japanese students look hot and excited as they...
View ArticleDecepciones a la holandesa, por @dlansberg
(Apologies for the Spanish post. Hace unos días, la misteriosa plana mayor de El Universal le comunicó a varios de sus columnistas de opinión que ya no publicarían sus columnas. Esto hace pensar que la...
View ArticleAdiós, Miami: a Caracas Chronicles film review
(This is a guest post by a longtime reader, who has fittingly chosen the pseudonym Old Parr) Adiós, Caracas A couple of days ago, as Juan Cristóbal Nagel was blogging about the incredible collapse of...
View ArticleDivide and conquer
(This is a guest post by longtime reader Sasha Ojeda Mendoza, a Dutch-Venezuelan political scientist and blogger based in Amsterdam. Take it away, Sasha.) Entrenched politics and how to fail at...
View ArticleSearching for a narrative
(A guest post by Venezuelan economist and Harvard Research Fellow José Ramón Morales, despairing at the pervasiveness of populist discourse, even in the face of a bankrupt economy) Searching for a...
View Article“We don’t trust voting machines”
(Now, to keep the conversation on our electoral system going, a guest post from friend-of-the-blog Sasha Ojeda and IT Specialist Sander Plas. Both of them are based in Amsterdam. Enjoy!) When we read...
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