In an exceptionally lucid and harrowing piece in The Observer, Emma Graham-Harrison introduces us to the Venezuelan teenagers turning to prostitution to stave off hunger.
Venezuelans tend to think we are the first cases of everything, but I’m not even the first to experience repression in my family. This is how my great-grandpa lived it – and won.
Hugo Chávez created the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) as a friendly forum to protect Venezuela from external pressure. These days, the body won’t even hold a meeting if Nicolás Maduro convenes it.
What used to be a paradise getaway for many has turned into a living hell. The worst part? It all could have been avoided.
Colombian TV broadcaster Caracol Internacional was taken off Venezuelan cable grids, and becomes the latest in a growing list of victims of Communicational Hegemony.
Hamza lived through a dictatorship and then came to Venezuela, where he became either a cynic or a pragmatist, depending on how you read his words. All that remains clear is that things here can always get worse.
An actual U.S. military action in Venezuela would be a calamity. But if it could be made credible, the threat of U.S. military action could prove quite useful.
38 Animals. A 30X payoff. A grim wager of hunger stalks “Los Animalitos” —the new lottery craze taking Venezuela’s desperate people by storm.
Venezuela made specific commitments to the world in the context of the Paris Climate Accords. It’s not just that we’re behind on implementing them, it’s that we’re way behind in planning to implement them.
We talked, we argued, we babbled, we spoke. But you still pretend to know more about Venezuela suffering than us, the real victims. And I’m not taking it anymore.
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