Arca, Safety Trance, DJ Babatr, even Canserbero and many in hip hop. Venezuela’s underground sounds make up dynamic and renowned movements but lack recognition at home. Why?| Caracas Chronicles
A delicate international game awaits an eventual transition government led by the current opposition, which would need to deal with military forces molded by the chavista era| Caracas Chronicles
Washington hasn’t officially confirmed the move, but leaks suggest a naval build-up against drug routes linked to Venezuela. Results so far: endless speculation, regional reactions and chavista paranoia| Caracas Chronicles
Martha Lía Grajales spoke out against police violence in Caracas’ slums before joining the struggle for political prisoners. Her forced disappearance sparked a dilemma in the ruling elite| Caracas Chronicles
También en Español| Caracas Chronicles
The Argentinean film tells a true story, but stops at a happy ending that was just a part of a longer–and uglier–sequence of events| Caracas Chronicles
The FANB could play a tutelary role in a transition even if chavismo leaves power, with a high command seeking to preserve its status and privileges before a new government and the United States| Caracas Chronicles
What began in 2022 as an unproven tweet became a viral rumor. Two years later, Donald Trump used it to justify the mass deportation of Venezuelans| Caracas Chronicles
En la era actual, construir un poder auténtico desde abajo requerirá volver a prácticas fundamentales y desechar nociones engañosas sobre la democracia| Caracas Chronicles
El foco para entender a la Venezuela actual no debe estar en la legitimidad de Maduro, sino en el pacto existente entre la élite gobernante y la élite económica que sostiene el orden y domestica la miseria| Caracas Chronicles
If Maduro & Co. were to leave power, a fragmented opposition with no clear agenda could leave us with a deadlocked parliament—or a Bukele-style leader forcing reforms at any cost| Caracas Chronicles
George Harris en Viña del Mar y María Corina Machado tras el 9 de enero representan dos facetas del fracaso en lidiar con la realidad de una sociedad dispersa y transnacional que, para sobrevivir, debe reciclar sus ideas y su práctica política| Caracas Chronicles
The focus to understand today’s Venezuela shouldn’t be on Maduro’s (lack of) legitimacy, but on the pact between ruling and business elites that sustains order and makes misery livable| Caracas Chronicles
Making Venezuela make sense, fifteen years and counting.| Caracas Chronicles
In his book Venezuela’s Collapse: The Long Story of How Things Fell Apart, Venezuelan author Carlos Lizarralde unearths the uncomfortable subject of race and ethnicity to explain how Chavismo destroyed the country| Caracas Chronicles
También en Español| Caracas Chronicles
Politics| Caracas Chronicles
The celebration carried a different weight in a year shaped by relentless hostility against activists and political leaders. Despite the lack of anti-Maduro slogans, it still stood tall as a symbol of resilience and resistance| Caracas Chronicles
Life| Caracas Chronicles
María Corina Machado insists on selling four victories that don’t match with Venezuela’s political reality| Caracas Chronicles
In an opaque and unpopular election, what stands out isn’t who "won" but how chavismo keeps punishing everyone and rewarding its chosen adversaries #NowWhatVenezuela| Caracas Chronicles
15 media outlets band together... not for aguardiente but for the future of Venezuelan journalism| Caracas Chronicles
Venezuelan-born voters are expected to play a key role in Sunday’s legislative elections in the capital city, as Milei aims to defeat former allies on the Argentine right| Caracas Chronicles
Ariadna Pinto, a 20-year-old diabetic, never recovered after falling gravely ill in prison. Lindomar Amaro, 27, died by suicide in Tocorón. #NowWhatVenezuela| Caracas Chronicles
The same old class prejudices and phobias that predated chavismo are now being politically exploited by Venezuelans in the U.S. to create a narrative of good and bad fellow immigrants| Caracas Chronicles
Machado’s suffocation thesis may be based on false premises. For Venezuelan society, caught between repression and political “firmas,” the way forward must be organization beyond parties| Caracas Chronicles
Maduro uses the U.S. tariff war to unveil economic measures, while a new opposition alliance seeks relevance amid restrictions and voter apathy #NowWhatVenezuela| Caracas Chronicles
The issue currently causing the most anxiety for Venezuelans stems from a mix of the country’s long-standing exchange controls—now over 20 years old—and specific unfolding events| Caracas Chronicles
Without a constituent assembly, constitutional amendments loom to block political opposition and solidify repression| Caracas Chronicles
Erdogan’s Turkey could not only, once again, become a mediator in Venezuela and push for a solution. It could also become a safe haven for an exiled Maduro| Caracas Chronicles
The competition between the U.S. and China and the Venezuelan need to access the Asian market made of India an economic actor of increasing relevance| Caracas Chronicles
Yesterday, at least six statues of the Comandante Eterno were toppled by demonstrators in former chavista strongholds. This has a lot of meaning| Caracas Chronicles
Neither of them competed in the election, but they both are key to unlock Venezuela’s future| Caracas Chronicles
The Maduro government is staging a new pact not to comply with it but to use the traumas from 2017 and the middle class' anxiety| Caracas Chronicles
Economists Asdrúbal Oliveros and Jesús Palacios Chacín, from consulting and research firm Ecoanalítica, explain what we should expect from Venezuela’s economy following the new sanctions regime and the elections| Caracas Chronicles
A new mass event, this time including presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, brings the María Corina phenomenon closer to the capital in a former Chavista stronghold| Caracas Chronicles
An alleged ban on an opposition event is the latest chapter in the long fight for control of the oldest university in Venezuela| Caracas Chronicles
The electoral playing field for July 28 remains full of obstacles that Maduro could use to his favor, even if PSUV’s grassroots structure is considerably weaker than during the Chávez era| Caracas Chronicles
