Quico says: Four years ago, I was working for VenEconomy out of their Sabana Grande offices. Lucky me, I was living in La Campiña, so I ha...

Hate Caracas Chronicles lately? Guess what, so does everybody else! After a bloody barrage of abuse aimed at my recent editorial line - th...

Katy says: There are several reasons I just had to reprint this latest article from The Economist . One, it recognizes the enthusiasm of the...

Katy says: For those of you who are interested, I've posted some new pictures in that other blog . Thanks to my super-secret spies, bold...

Katy says: Last weekend, my family and I rented a cabin high in the Andes to get away from it all. What the picture from the brochure didn...

Katy says: (Note: What follows is a translation of an article Tal Cual published yesterday. Ana Julia Jatar is a brilliant Venezuelan econ...

Quico says: I guess the part I found most interesting about that Evans/McDonough poll was not so much the horse-race questions as the mood...

Quico says: Well, a new Evans/McDonough poll is out. They talked to 2000 people at home, in 20 states, between Oct. 26th and Nov. 3rd. It...

JayDee says: First off, sorry for the delay. I'll tell you, though: Saturday's march was impressive. I say this having been thoro...

Quico says: According to El Universal: Keller says he was misunderstood when he explained that the size of Chavez's market is 52% whil...

"If anyone forgets we're in the middle of a Revolution, we're going to beat it into them: this company stands with Chavez....

Quico says: Normally, I don't translate humor pieces - jokes so seldom make it unharmed from one language to the other. But it's a ...

Quico says: Remember those "compare and contrast" essays they'd assign you to write in high school? Ah, the nostalgia! Here, ...

Quico says: Well, a kind soul leaked Keller's slides to me. As suspected, the 52-48 number is not the result of a standard, "if th...

Katy says: One of the refreshing features of this electoral campaign has been that Venezuela's electoral authority (the CNE) has not bee...

Quico says: Just a note to those of you who read the main blog but skip the comments... yesterday's thread in response to JayDee'...

JayDee says: Finding myself in El Valle yesterday with little to do, I swung by José’s bodega again for a beer . Surprisingly, the man recog...

Katy says: Some of our loyal chavista readers are very upbeat on a recent poll by Zogby International that gave Chávez a big, big lead over...

Quico says: Finally, a high-profile foreign paper picks up on the ongoing mystery of Danilo Anderson's murder. I'm so elated some...

Quico says: This article in the New York Times more or less blew my mind: To understand Sudan’s defiance toward the world, especially the ...

Quico says: So, with 36 days to go until December 3rd, where is this election campaign? Basically, it's one of two things. Either: All ...

Katy says: Venezuela's Finance Minister unveiled the government's budget for fiscal year 2007 recently. Venezuelan consultancy Ven...

JayDee says: Manuel Rosales made a formal presentation of his Government Program yesterday in the Caracas Eurobuilding. There was no Q&...

Quico says: One baffling, infuriating puzzle about this election is why Manuel Rosales isn't getting more traction on corruption. Accor...

You know, the dangest people seem to read Caracas Chronicles. Today, we have a guest post on Mi Negra by Omar Zambrano, a Venezuelan economi...

Katy says: Two quick notes: 1.Russian President and elected autocrat Vladimir Putin announced today that, contrary to expectations, he will...

So, it turns out that silly oppo commentators like me had it all wrong: the reason Chavez spent the last few months visiting some 30 capital...

Those of us focused on Venezuelan affairs will tend to examine the UN Security Council election this week for clues about Chavez's inter...

This gobsmacking tidbit courtesy of the UK daily The Independent: Not content with building runways in the Caribbean, sending aid to Africa...

One important question in considering Manuel Rosales' plan to distribute a portion of oil revenues directly to poor families is how much...