Revolutionary priorities My friend Erica was telling me the other day about an essay by Gabriel García Márquez she read. In it, he expla...

Update: Chávez flies into New York today to meet Kofi Annan [Clarification for the hopelessly gringo: Antigovernment protests here t...

Blocking the exits Most opposition supporters have been looking forward to Feb. 2nd with some anxiety, seeing that day's referendum ...

So how come Caracas Chronicles suddenly isn't password protected anymore? From "Francisco Toro" Date Mon, 13 Jan 200...

The case for despondency Today I came closer than ever to succumbing to complete despondency, just absolute hopelessness. The impass...

Friendly nations? Friendly to whom? PDVSA’s strikers probably never set out to internationalize the Venezuelan conflict, but it looks li...

Dark hours for journalism It’s tough being a journalist in this country, especially if, like me, you’re trying to juggle roles as a crit...

Credibility Gap ...or: the broken record defense December 5th Inter-Press Service In a nationally broadcast message Thursday, Chve...

A plausible defense of the lunatic's legacy... As I talk about Venezuela with people abroad, some variation on it always comes up ...

Extra! Extra! Nothing happens! Today, the streets of Caracas are witnessing a totally unprecedented development: calm. For the first tim...

First casualty: everyday life... Last night, my sister Cristina asked whether I'd go visit her today, relieve some of the tedium of ...

The President Must Be Crazy Last week, VenEconomy outlined three scenarios for the brewing crisis here: the government, it was argued,...

Cold Civil War (...or is it Civil Cold War? Which do you think sounds better?) Another march in Caracas today, a really bloody b...

Crisis? What crisis? The BBC News write-up is hysterical. José Vicente Rangel's story is, of course, an incredible howler, and this...

Three scenarios For years, it’s been the proverbial “nuclear option” for the opponents of successive Venezuelan governments. Protests an...

Lies, damn lies, and channel 8 Turn on the television in Venezuela, any channel, any time, and you're in the thick of it. Every day,...

A good long one (blatantly ripped off from the not-yet-published December issue of VenEconomy:) The December Crisis The National Work S...

Now we're cooking without gas! Well, I've been really delinquent about blogging, but for the love of christ this country has g...

Anglophone escuálido bloggers of the world, unite! ...you have only your crappy low hit-counts to lose... My friend Tony Guzmán Blanc...

We’re all radicals now Yeah, yeah, so four days ago I wrote a long, rambling blog entry explaining why the general strike was going to f...

There’s nonsense, there’s hard-core nonsense, and then there’s chavista nonsense. The government’s public statements over the last few day...

This strike doesn’t have a chance… The big news these days is that, last week, the coordinadora democrática (the big umbrella group t...