-
Still on the Brink: Seven Things We Know About Venezuela
What We Know. What We Don’t. The clock ticks past 11:00 PM in Caracas on January 9, 2013, the eve of Venezuela’s scheduled presidential inauguration. By this point, all doubt has been removed: Hugo Chavez, stuck in a hospital bed somewhere in Havana, will miss his own party. Actualidad Union […]
Read all posts for ‘caracas’
-
Caracas: City of Contrasts
On the site worldviewcities.org, the teaser about Caracas says “Think Blade Runner in the tropics“. This might give you a sense of the chaos, the light and the darkness, and the contrasts of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, and my own home city. It’s difficult to talk about Caracas because more often than not we Caraquenians […]