The Oldest Lake in South America is Dying
After the lemma epidemic of previous years, a new pest (verdin) is plaguing Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. The reason: oil leaks and human activity
Life
Patria Dearest: Fortnights
We found the strangest of places to have our weekly family reunion: Fortnite
Patria Dearest: Toyota es Toyota
My family is returning to Venezuela for the first time in 8 years. I’m writing a series of blogs about my kids’ first encounter with la patria
Patria Dearest
My family is returning to Venezuela for the first time in 8 years. I’m writing a series of blogs about my kids’ first encounter with la patria
Explainer: ICC Will Open an Office in Caracas
As a signatory of the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court, the Maduro regime is forced to allow Karim Khan’s office to provide permanent technical assistance, with a team in the field reporting to him
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
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..
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