[These selected passages are translated from El Laberinto de los Tres Minotauros by J.M. Briceño Guerrero, available at the better Caracas ...

For the second time in 15 months, Venezuelans head to the polls on Sunday to vote on ending presidential term limits, potentially allowing H...

Creatively stolen from The Independent Venezuelans throng streets to protest against election 'fix' By Askold Krushelnycky in ...

Couldn't resist coming back to post just this one bit, which strikes me as bizarrely reminiscent. Feel the burn, baby, feel the burn......

It's a historic day. Of sorts. Blogger informs me that this is post number 500 on Caracas Chronicles - a tidy number, in just 25 month...

Last night, I listened to the BBC World Service's report on Jimmy Carter's concerns on voting in Florida. Lyse Doucet, the legendary...

I suppose Jimmy Carter didn't stop to consider how his opinion piece in today's Washinton Post might strike an opposition-minded Ve...

This photo shows a crime being committed. It may seem minor, but it's an issue of serious symbolic imporance in Venezuela. Retire...

This appears to be Hausmann and Rigobon's reply to Dan's Really Obvious Objection. Personally, I find it hard to follow. How doe...

or...Who exactly is Jorge Rodríguez? I. Suspending disbelief I want to address, first, my many readers who are sure there was fraud in...

The striking thing about the Carter Center's "reply" to Hausmann and Rigobon's original and much ballyhooed claims is that...

Carter Center Report on an Analysis of the Representativeness of the Second Audit Sample, and the Correlation between Petition Signers and t...

From today's Por Mi Madre, the daily political gossip page in TalCual, Final poll The final tracking poll for Consultores 21, car...

In Spanish the phrase "Carta Magna" is just a synonym for "constitution," so most Venezuelans probably don't know th...