Rafael Caldera and the Unclaimed Paternity of Chavismo
Rafael Caldera is often blamed for releasing Hugo Chávez from prison after his failed coup. Here’s the context in which those events unfolded
Jimmy Carter and Venezuela: the Good, the Bad and the Complicated
For many Venezuelans the name Jimmy Carter is associated with the appeasement of Hugo Chávez's first authoritarian strides, but his legacy is more complex than that
A Digital Platform to Rescue Venezuela’s Lost Memory
A group of academics launched a digital platform to recover historical documents, and a first project on slavery archives
How Vicente Emilio Sojo Rescued ‘Niño Lindo’
This beloved aguinaldo and many others would be totally unknown to us, if Maestro Sojo and his disciples wouldn’t have collected and transcribed them a century ago
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