Katy says : The singer of the reggaeton-du-jour Yasuri Yamileth (aka Panamanian songstress Catherine Severino, not the girl in the video b...

Katy says: I am going to ask Quico's loyal readers for a favor in an experiment I have in mind. Any time you see a pro-Chávez sign in a...

"No es la espada de Bolívar, es la chequera de Venezuela la que camina por América Latina." Manuel Rosales, upon announcing his ca...

Katy says: I was driving in traffic today when, on the radio, people were talking about a speech OAS Secretary-General José Miguel Insulza ...

Katy says: The latest round in the dispute between Venezuelan blogger Alek Boyd and London mayor Ken Livingstone is not to be missed .

Katy says: Here is a nice little picture I got today. It is from some sort of PDVSA office, and the slogan reads "toward 10 million...

Katy says: Influential British magazine The Economist (registration required) has a very interesting article on national oil companies and ...

Katy says: Venezuelans woke up Sunday to the news that jailed union leader Carlos Ortega had fled Ramo Verde military prison along with thr...

Katy says: As everyone knows, Chávez went to Cuba to visit Fidel Castro, courtesy of Venezuelan taxpayers. Here's a question to test yo...

Katy says: Venezuela has just announced that it will not participate as the guest of honor in the La Paz Book Fair. Our country's repre...

Katy says: Wednesday, August 1, 3:50 AM: Former CNE President and chavista figure, Jorge Rodríguez, goes to Clínica El Ávila (one of Venezu...

Katy says: Manuel Rosales, two-term governor of the state of Zulia, in Western Venezuela, has just been confirmed as the single presidenti...

Katy says: Nicolás Maduro is apparently going to be named Foreign Secretary . Comments thread is now open...

From the road, Quico says: I don't know that much about Manuel Rosales - in itself a bad sign, given what a political junkie I am - bu...

Katy says: Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales is in a bind. He is mulling whether to be or not to be the opposition's main presidential cand...

Katy says: Loyal reader and fellow blogger Bruni (I assume those are her eyes at left) has a great post today regarding the accuracy of fing...

Katy says: Did you know that, according to Prof. Marino González of Simón Bolívar University, the total spending on weapons Chávez has anno...

Katy says: Several things from the news this morning that are worth commenting. 1. If it's bad to be rich, Jorge Rodríguez is one baaaa...

In the last salvo in our Opinion Duel on Benjamin Rausseo, Quico says that Katy makes her case as if chavismo had never happened. The Duel i...

Katy says: Fidel Castro is undergoing intestinal surgery and has handed over power to his brother.

... has begun. Katy says Quico is just another desperate blogger. Stay tuned for Quico's response.

It has started. Katy wrote there is no spoon for her in this sancocho. Quico replies that Katy is giving a gift horse a root canal...

Alright, Katy - if that is indeed your real name - things have gone far enough. I shall suffer your Guacharophobia in silence no more. The...

The Guachinton Pos picks up an AP story about Rausseo... "He's ugly, I'm ugly ... I talk, he talks. But the difference is I l...

Ask yourself this: what drives people's voting in the TV age? Is it experience? "Preparation"? A government program? Ideology?...

...or: method to the madness. As Condemania grips the nation, the question looms ever larger: who exactly is behind Benjamín Rausseo? Frank...

Well, it had to come to this: Benjamín Rausseo, much better known as El Conde del Guacharo, has launched his presidential bid. It's a bi...

Those of you who've used the "subscribe" thingy to get Caracas Chronicles delivered to your inbox know that the software I was...

Click here to listen to the interview. In the second Skypecast in a series on Venezuela's economic collapse, I interview Jonathan DiJ...

Ah, the harvest of incriminating quotes has begun. Here's Huguito on Belarus: "I have come here to conclude a unity pact. Here we s...

Here's a study in contrasts: Julio Borges launching PJ's Progreso Popular plan: Teodoro Petkoff launching his candidacy Manuel Rosal...

The current New York Times Magazine carries this stunning feature on North Korea's super-sophisticated operation to counterfeit US do...

In his inimitable style, Harry Hutton nails a point I've been trying to make for a long time. It's just that when he does it, you l...

Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales finally had a proper presidential campaign launch yesterday, giving a good old fashioned, nasal-toned populis...

Turns out Hugo Chávez still wants to go to North Korea, but Pyongyang seems to be playing hard to get. Could Kim Jong Il bear to sit around...

It's a point GP keeps making in my comments section, and it's a good one: for most Chavez supporters abroad, Venezuela didn't e...

The Miami Herald's Steven Dudley adds one more article to a fast growing subgenre of journalism about the Chavez era: The Bolibourge...

Hat tip to Brett...

Crime is the issue Venezuelans are most worried about. It's also the issue where they rate Chavez's performance worst. Here's...

From a polling perspective, it's a no-brainer. The issue most people identify as the country's biggest problem is also the one wher...

Pro-Chavez National Assembly Members José Albornoz (PPT) and Ismael García (Podemos) are asking the Prosecutor General to jail Sumate's ...

Katy says: The debate that raged in the comments section (see Quico's prior post and the discussion that followed) got me thinking abo...

Extremism is becoming the defining characteristic of the chavista movement. At no point does the ruling ideology draw the line - just the op...