Planning a Political Debate Under a Dictatorship
Professor Francisco Coello, one of the leading organizers of the debate that joined eight of the candidates to the opposition primaries, hopes that this will be the first of many events of this kind
Machine Learning From the Revolution
Twitter bots are no longer enough. Fake video anchors and ad targeting are among the many ways an autocracy can take advantage of increasingly powerful AI tools
Venezuelan Contemporary Art Breaks Out
Gego’s retrospective in New York’s Guggenheim is a small part of a wider effort by Venezuelan curators and artists of different generations to show the creative treasure still alive in Venezuela and the exiled communities
An Atlas of Venezuelan Orchestral Conductors
Now moving on to NYC, Gustavo Dudamel is the most famous and influential, but he’s not the only one making waves in professional orchestras around the world
Discovering Gego
As a Venezuelan growing up abroad, seeing for the first time the work of this magnificent artist, at a Mexican museum, made me realize the distance my generation has with many masterworks of my country’s culture
Empty Suitcases and Traveling Hallacas
Pedro spoke to people from North America to Australia, to see how they experience the complexities of the holidays that in many ways define what means to be Venezuelan
Saving Venezuelan Pop Classics
Musician and producer Cheo Pardo has a mission: re-recording and re-releasing the music we lost because of the demise of the Venezuelan music business
The Deported: Unwelcome in the U.S. and Latin America
Pedro spoke to Venezuelan migrants in Mexican shelters about the Biden administration orders of automatic deportations and to the people who try to manage the surge
The First Animated Venezuelan-American Family on American TV
Caraqueña comedian Joanna Hausmann, head writer and co-producer of the animated series Hamster and Gretel, tells the story of the show that premieres on August 12th on Disney Channel
Full Send: Venezuelan University Joins Emerging Esports Scene
While some Russian investors are forming a team in El Yaque, one of Venezuela’s main universities just started to train professional gamers. What’s going on?
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