Caracaschronicles.com Website Review

bare shelves, empty wallets: shopkeepers brace for the worst christmas ever. pernil paternalism: for the millionth time, state benefits are not gifts. government paying old age pensions in petros, without people’s consent. we continue with the caracas chronicles’ best pieces from the second quarter of the year, with the may 20 presidential “election” as the main event, for better or worse. read more 2018 was quite a challenging year for venezuela, but caracas chronicles was there to cover its different angles. here’s some of after 72 hours of cursing brittle banana leaves, contentious almond-roasting, youtu*e scouting, scannone-hating and pork lard handling, i made my first hallaca. it was gruelling. it was worth it. in venezuela, we don’t have a christmas carol, a it’s a wonderful life, we don’t even have a home alone. but we have herrera luque, and one of his tales hits a bit close to home this year.. designer manuel lara has a special knack for looking at the ravishing caracas all around us that we barely stop to notice. sick of the chaos in venezuela, i ran off to paris. and then protests seemed to follow me here. my ptsd’d self could barely handle it, at first. but then i saw the french have a whole different way to do street chaos.. nothing at all like ours. most venezuelans would kill for a chance of a dollar paying job. i thought i would, too. then i got a dream offer, did the math.. and. bare shelves, empty wallets: shopkeepers brace for the worst christmas ever. venezuela has always had a port economy, with most consumption goods coming from abroad. what happens when there's no money for imports? a very bleak holiday season, that's what happens.. pernil paternalism: for the millionth time, state benefits are not gifts. 2018 is seeing the dispiriting return of a sad year-end ritual: the pernil messaging wars. as we argue over who does or doesn’t and should or shouldn’t get a pork leg, can we just get one thing straight? the stuff the state hands out is never a gift.