Antonio Matheus, Author at Caracas Chronicles (original) (raw)
The State of Venezuelan Baseball is Strong
The 2024-2025 season is being played in nine stadiums with good attendance and global broadcasting through streaming. But it’s more than bread-and-circus
Antonio Matheus January 7, 2025
The New, The Old and The Unbelievable: Watching Baseball in Caracas
When you move to the Venezuelan capital from a city like Maracaibo, or have spent some years abroad, you may be amazed by how affordable watching Ronald Acuña can be, and how spectacular is the new stadium
Antonio Matheus January 12, 2024
On The Road to Venezuelan Paradise
My first vacations out of Maracaibo in many, many years made me discover the beautiful and bizarre country I live in
Antonio Matheus October 28, 2023
Fear and Running in Maracaibo
In Maracaibo, we now have well-organized marathons that even help fast track public works to prepare the streets. But our problems are still there, spoiling the illusion
Antonio Matheus October 6, 2023
Eagles in the Outfield: Where's Venezuelan Baseball in 2023?
At least in this realm, the sanctions were lifted and we even saw active MLB stars in many league games. But attendance and media attention are still a shadow of what once were
Antonio Matheus January 5, 2023
The Silent Demise of Venezuelan Baseball
Venezuela’s favorite sport keeps going, amid excruciating circumstances, sparse crowds and almost no reporters. A dispatch from the field of the Luis Aparicio El Grande Stadium
Antonio Matheus January 4, 2022
Walk the Line: a New Chapter in Gas for Maracaibo
The first dramatic change after Manuel Rosales’s victory over Omar Prieto, is the absence of gas lines. The answer lies between street rumors and crowdsourced data
Antonio Matheus December 7, 2021
Numbers Are Forever: the Feats of Miguel Cabrera
With his 500 home runs in the MLB, the Detroit Tigers batter reached a set of records unmatched by any other Venezuelan baseball star
Antonio Matheus August 22, 2021
Maracaibo Courts: One Year in the Dark
The main regional office of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, a landmark building in Maracaibo, spent 12 months trying to function without power. There’s little space for metaphors with such heat and darkness
Antonio Matheus March 29, 2021
The Maduro Regime Takes Over Gas Stations—And Whole Communities Suffer
The story of one of Maracaibo’s most crowded gas stations and convenience stores proves how the new economy around gas could change cities
Antonio Matheus March 13, 2021
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