Juan Cristóbal says: Read in an Argentine tourism webpage : "In the vast area where the capybara lives (which spans Panama, Colombia, ...

Quico says: In his cadena today, Chávez dropped this bombshell: "When I was 18, I was into show business. I even MC'd a couple ...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Post 37 of 100... nothing like a cheesy 80s video to lighten the mood.

Quico says: Boy, that was predictable . So, if I'm following this, Venezuela's position now is that its diplomats must remain in T...

Juan Cristóbal says: Teodoro Petkoff is a favorite of Quico's, but I have to bring him to task for today's Tal Cual editorial . Pet...

Quico says: What do you do when a government you don't recognize expels your diplomatic delegation? Come to think of it, given that yo...

Quico says: How else to interpret Chávez's declaration that the stories about FARC funding Rafael Correa's election campaign are ...

No comment... Post 32 of 100. Are we having fun yet?

Juan Cristóbal says: - Alek Boyd sends us this link about Smartmatic's latest "business ventures ." It appears our friends wi...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Sounds like a misnomer, right? But there they are, people in the oil industry who stuck it out, did not join the oil...

Quico says: In today's NYTimes, Simón Romero has a lovely take on Barinas as Chávez family fiefdom. To wit... In an election last year ...

Quico says: Probably the most shocking aspect of the Supreme Tribunal's unceremonial dumping of Judge Alicia Torres is that no laws we...

Quico says: Reporters Without Borders today warned of the dangers of legal changes announced by the Venezuelan government in the past few w...

Quico says: Human Rights Defender Gabriela Ramírez's speech to the effect that what's really out of control in Venezuela is the per...

Marta says: "What kind of 'New Man' are they talking about? Ché Guevara is their model, by God!" Post 25 of 100. Cheat.

Juan Cristóbal says: - The attached press note from a speech given by People's Ombuds-person Gabriela Ramírez says a lot about why our...

Quico says: Has anyone else noticed the way the runaway success of Noticias24 has spawned this whole ecosystem of copy-cat sites on the Ve...

La Paz, Bolivia - 11:04 a.m. Share the view from your window. Send it along to caracaschronicles@fastmail.fm Post 22 of 100. Evo-licious.

Juan Cristóbal says: - File this under "important stories we are not paying enough attention to:" the government's efforts ai...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Today I read about two eye-popping trends. The first - McDonald's is reporting that sales in Venezuela are incre...

Juan Cristóbal says: - There was a high-profile meeting today at OAS eadquarters in Washington between OAS diplomats and Antonio Ledezma, P...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Several readers have chastised me for using sexist language in two of my stream-of-consciousness posts today. I call...

Quico says: I close day one with a newfound appreciation for the high-volume blogger's craft. I simply blogged as much as my imaginatio...

Quico says: So, a little over a year ago, I wrote this epic post about going to get my driver's license in Caracas. In this blog's...

Juan Cristóbal says: - As some of you may know, I finally caved and began using twitter a few weeks ago. (Insert shameless self-promotion h...

Quico says: As we see OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza increasingly mimetized with Chávez over the Honduran crisis, it's wort...

Juan Cristóbal says: This video of National Assembly speaker Cilia Flores in full-attack mode packs a wallop. It shows the under-appreciate...

Quico says: It's hard to overstate how bizarre the judicial persecution against Globovision financier and president Guillermo Zuloaga...

Juan Cristóbal says: - The head of Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Chavista Justice had a fit of anger the other day. During a press co...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Life in our fair, not-quite-socialist capital city is highlighted in a NY Times piece by Simón Romero and Gregory Kr...

Quico says: Lets say that, as the ALBA block claims to believe, the interruption of constitutional rule in Honduras is simply unacceptable ...

Quico says: Child rapist Daniel Ortega (a.k.a. the president of Nicaragua) has apparently decided that Central America isn't quite tens...

Montreal, Canada - 10: 44 a.m. Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to send in pictures. I'll be publishing them at the rate of o...

Juan Cristóbal says: Rumors of a not-quite-overt devaluation of Venezuela's fixed exchange rate system continue to swirl. The last few ...

Quico says: It really is a masterpiece of Ionesco-ish Latin American political lunacy: Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa responded to the...

Quico says: Bloomberg has an excellent piece on the scale of the fiscal sink hole the government is in these days. Facing a budget deficit...

Quico says: Killer fact: 17% of all the cocaine produced in the Andes moves through Venezuela, now that the volume of coke trafficked thro...

Quico says: Mel Zelaya's grandiloquent announcement yesterday that he intends to now lead an "insurrection" in Honduras as h...

Quico says: What follows over the next few days is an experiment: a shot at re-imagining what Caracas Chronicles might be like under a diff...

Quico says: As part of our mad dash to write 100 posts in five days next week, we've added the infamous "Read more..." button...

Quico and Juan Cristóbal say: So, we've just noticed there are now 1900 posts in this blog's 7 year archive...now that we're so...

Quico says: So over the last few days readers have been complaining, both in the comments section and over email, that we never wrote anyt...

Quico says: What a long, strange trip this Honduran coup has been. It takes a crisis of this magnitude to reconfigure the hemisphere's ...

Quico says: Be sure to check out this fascinating column on the Honduran crisis by IAD's Michael Lisman in, of all places, The Guardi...

Quico says: Still don't think the government's having trouble paying its bills? Check this out:

Quico says: Do your worst...

Juan Cristóbal says: - Sometimes, bloggers make mistakes. I got a Twitter feed from a friend saying that Rafael Caldera , former President ...

Quico says: It's hard to know where to start to pick apart yesterday's extraordinary air-borne telenovela over Tegucigalpa, but it...