Mental Health Institutions Turned Into Pigpens
Less visible than the rest of our humanitarian crisis, the decline of all conditions in what’s left of public psychiatric wards has brought back horrendous practices from the past
Life
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
How Les Misérables Landed in Caracas
It was already ambitious of young producer Claudia Salazar to attempt the staging of the great musical based on the novel by Victor Hugo, let alone doing it in 2019 Venezuela. Now that it returned to the Teresa Carreño on March 30th, we tell this incredible story
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
Baseball's Coming Home
Venezuelan baseball is promising to bring all the sports-related joys that football has deprived us from. We'll see..
We Have to Talk About Pekergate
After a decision that had many folks wondering if the time of the Vinotinto had finale come, the FVF goes back to its old ways. Manager José Pekerman has left the building
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A group of academics launched a digital platform to recover historical documents, and a first project on slavery archives
A ‘Simulation’ of Justice: How Venezuela Tries to Fool the ICC
While attempting a narrative change over high-profile extrajudicial killings, the Maduro regime uses the Attorney General’s office to slow the ICC’s work
How to Read the Watson Hotel Protests
A group of male migrants and refugees protested to avoid being removed from the hotel rooms paid for by the city. Is the local authority required to provide for all their needs? Or should they take on the responsibility to provide for themselves?
Explainer: Another UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Visits Venezuela
The new UN High Commissioner for Human RIghts came to Venezuela amid a new wave of detentions and threats to NGOs. He met the regime’s heads, NGOs and victims, and said he will continue the investigations. But he also left several unsolved questions
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