Animal Rescue: El Llanito Edition
On World Animal Day, we meet the people behind SOS Animal, the El Llanito NGO looking out for the very most forgotten victims of Venezuela’s crisis.
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A Path to Recover Venezuela’s Well-being
So much is wrong with Venezuela's economy, that it’s hard to know where to even start. Unless you’re Ricardo Hausmann and Miguel Ángel Santos – those guys know where to start.
#TheWeeklyArepa Editorial: Atonement
Each Friday, Raúl regales the members of our mailing list with a scrumptious little nugget of wisdom in our Weekly Arepa. Here’s this week’s.
You Have the Right to Know
Today is International Day for the Universal Access to Information: a noble UN goal that doubles as a sinister joke to Venezuelans living in the dark under a dictatorship that wants them not to know.
Empty Universities
With a massive exodus of both students and professors, and universities struggling with their budgets, Venezuelan academia seems doomed to disappear altogether.
Meeting Bolichico Rodríguez
If you’re a Venezuelan living abroad, you’ve fantasized about the day you meet a "bolichico" in a social setting. Here’s a useful primer to plan for your own encounter.
Venezuela in Trump’s Travel Ban: An Explainer
Venezuela joining the likes of North Korea and Syria in the U.S. list of risky countries is no surprise. It’s the execution of these promised measures that makes this such a strange case.
Girls Interrupted
Today is World Contraception Day. In Venezuela, the staggering rate of teenage pregnancy is a very real public health issue, and also a social problem.
Where Have the Doctors Gone?
Thousands of MDs have left Venezuela. Facing discrimination and bureaucratic obstacles abroad, they either manage the certification ordeal… or leave medicine altogether.
Another Year With(out) Penicillin
It’s almost a century ago today that antibiotics, as we know them, were first introduced into modern medicine. Sadly, Venezuela struggles to stay out of the pre-antibiotic era.
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