If only the malandros who keep going back to UCV's Instituto de Medicina Tropical to pick at the bones of a broken institutions knew Dr. Félix Pifano, and the way this institute transformed Venezuela.
The brand new Mérida cable car is both a sample of what Venezuela could be, and the reasons why it’s not: A beautiful place doomed by economic nonsense.
Rampant inflation, highly devalued currency, widespread shortages of everything, including paper money...Makes me just want to get drunk, except I can't because the liquor store wont take my debit card.
What should be the theme song for Maduro's daily, four-hour long radio show, La Hora de la Salsa.
In Venezuela, everybody's looking for an angle. Techies have found theirs: mining bitcoins using the world's most crazy-cheap electricity.
As the trade block prepares to suspend Venezuela for failing to implement any of its accession obligations, the government doesn't even seem to care.
Last week, Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni was barred from appointing her own counsel at a disciplinary tribunal to eject her from the bench. A bizarre injustice, but entirely in keeping with the kafkaesque seven year ordeal she has faced.
It's not just that Trump and Maduro have a disturbing tendency to believe things that are plainly false, it's that they turf out their understanding of the world to obvious charlatans.
As massacres become a weekly event in Venezuela, mass graves are crafting a new abnormal normality, rendering empathy impossible and dehumanizing us little by little.
Has any other Latin American done as much damage in a single lifetime as Fidel Castro? It's...not even close.
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