The Bullet You Didn't Dodge
In 2004, I went out for errands. I ended the day with a gunshot wound and an ultra-large dose of reality.
Life
Our Revolt's Soundtrack
The 2017 Protest Movement may have fizzled out, but there’s a song for that, too. Come in and have a listen.
"At any moment there could be arrests of journalists. The fear has become real."
For five years, Gustavo Hernández Acevedo has been minutely tracking each new attack on Venezuela's free press. Yesterday, for Deutsche Welle, he stood back to survey the wreckage.
“Never in my life had I spent a night worrying about what I would eat tomorrow”
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.
El Viejo González Estarriol
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.
CELACantaron Clarito
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.
The Tragedy of Choroní: Tears of Neglect
What used to be a paradise getaway for many has turned into a living hell. The worst part? It all could have been avoided.
Gagging the Snail
Colombian TV broadcaster Caracol Internacional was taken off Venezuelan cable grids, and becomes the latest in a growing list of victims of Communicational Hegemony.
Libya, Venezuela, Here, There, and Anywhere
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.
The Real U.S. Military Option is a U.S. Military Threat
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.
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