Writer, publisher, entrepreneur in exile, John Manuel believes there is intelligent life in other planets, but isn't so sure about this one. He has written the following books: «Afrodita, C.A. y otras empresas fracasadas» (Caracas: 2013, Editorial Ígneo) y «La rocola del oeste» (Caracas: 2016, Breinguash Books).
Between silence and frustration, the enormous political capital of the new opposition leader cannot be lost. She has to show, and now, that she knows what to do – that she is not another Guaidó.
The middle class was always the opposition's core. But years of political failures and betrayals pushed this group, full of prophetic ladies from El Cafetal, towards depoliticization. In the age of Corina Yoris, is the middle class going back to politics?
The Bolivarian revolution, in all effect, is a revolution. The almost unnoticed passing of Gustavo Cisneros and the erasure of cultural products of the Chataing Era show the extent of Chavismo's impact in our collective memory.
Venezuelans often say that we’re all responsible for this disaster, and that's particularly true in our culture and the arts, fields that today mourn their old complicities.
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