Something in Our Blood: The Rising Plague of Malaria in Venezuela
With the general collapse of infrastructure, diseases allegedly defeated have made a horrifying comeback, and none has been more voracious than malaria.
Life
What Lies at the Heart of Corazón Llanero
Two beloved radio stations just went off the air by executive decision. As you might expect, nothing in the Revolution happens by chance...
"When I stretched my arms, I could touch two opposite walls."
Yon Goicoechea pens a New York Times Op-Ed from the dark confines of his jail cell. The three minutes that you spend reading it are three minutes of freedom that you gift a political prisoner.
Waiting for the Barbarians
Our emperor has said that there is an invasion afoot. We must trust him and prepare ourselves to vanquish the enemy.
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.
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.
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