It was a heady mixture of patria, red paranoia, and Bolivarian surrealism: how taking a picture of a busy, million-times-photographed Caracas landmark got us in trouble not with normal beat cops, mind you, but with Military friggin’ Counterintelligence.
We mourn the passing of a gentle, tough, uncompromising example to Venezuelan women and generations to come.
The AP's Joshua Goodman has the story of Joshua Holt, the Mormon missionary from Utah who fell in love with a local girl, decided to marry her...and ended up rotting in El Helicoide political prison for his trouble.
Time was when you might find a kid named Bolivar Johnson or Bolivar Miller in any town in the U.S.
As a young engineering trainee in Ukraine, Marvin Pérez caught a glimpse of Perestroika, only to have it cruelly denied back home in Cuba. In the second of a three-part series, we follow the Perezes story of serial exile.
As the Rio Olympics close, Venezuela's sportsmen and women did as well as they've ever done...that is to say, still not great.
A totally crazy leaked video gives us a glimpse of Law Enforcement, Guayana style: with one set of cops shooting at another set of cops to protect their racketeering turf. Sick.
It’s a wild world out in Twitterland. What’s good? What’s worth it? These are Muci’s top 10 picks to stay in the loop of Venezuela’s distopy-in-development.
Plenty of Venezuelans see the idea of a transition negotiated with chavismo as almost too ridiculous for words. What if we're wrong, though?
How on earth are we ever supposed to explain what is happening to Venezuela in 2016 to our grandchildren one day? No, really, how?
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