From Envy to Horror: Talking to My Ukrainian Friend
When Nika told me about the Maidan protests in 2014, I felt Ukraine and Venezuela were fighting parallel wars. Now I realized how our paths diverged
Our Diaspora Helps Venezuelan Musicians Become More International
Like with many artists who have visited Italian, Lebanese or Irish audiences in the metropolises of immigration for decades, Venezuelan musicians are making a living out of playing concerts all across the wide geography of our migration
How a Sinatra Song Told the Story of the Venezuelan Diaspora
When David Calcaño and Ala Nulu made the annual Christmas animated video for the Old Blue Eyes’ YouTube channel, they chose an angle that goes directly into our hearts
How Venezuelan Pop Culture Is Talking Migration
The separation from loved ones, the alienation of living somewhere else and the multiple effects of massive migration in our society are growing as the themes of Venezuelan artists’ songs and movies
How the Olympics Helped Me Reconnect with Venezuela
These games and the performance of our athletes are doing something strange to migrants like me: making us feel proud of the country that we felt had betrayed us
When Your Favorite Rock Stars Defend Dictatorships
Some say you have to separate the art from the artist, but it’s not easy when voices of rock & roll and rebellion run to support repression against the Cuban and Venezuelan people
A Celebration of ‘Typical and Autoctonal Venezuelan Dance Bands’
The ironic category Los Amigos Invisibles gave to themselves can also be used for several music projects that have been fusioning rock, jazz and many Caribbean genres since the 1980s
Nostalgia for a Broken City
Venezuelan rock band Viniloversus just released a live album that took me to the brief, precious time when Caracas had a true alternative music scene, just before the collapse
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