Venezuela: importing milk since the XVIIIth Century
One of the new textbooks being distributed in Venezuela’s schools makes the strange claim that Simón Bolívar was nursed … by a Cuban woman. Now, the story of Bolívar’s...
Life
Fahrenheit 058
Over at Foreign Policy’s Transitions blog, I try and explain just why Venezuelan parents are incensed. The value added: In order to “promote participatory democracy,” the resolution states that all...
In search of lost empathy
(A guest post by friend-of-the-blog and sometimes-collaborator Moraima García) As a long-time reader of the blog, I have to confess I was more than a tad skeptic when Juan...
Massiel
We’ve been meaning to write about the sad case of Massiel Pacheco for a while, but … así estarán las cosas … things are so bad that the...
The notorious P.N.B.
Having the second highest homicide rate in the world is not an honor that any nation wants to carry on its shoulders, and the burden is particularly high for...
Venezuela's orphaned parents
(A guest post by Daniela Alexandra Porat, a Toronto-based Venezuelan ex-pat and CC reader) Venezuela’s current crisis finds a mirror in the stories of the country’s padres huérfanos....
Incitatii Bolivariani
… or a modest proposal for Venezuela (A guest post by friend-of-the-blog Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez) The Emperor Gaius Caligula Caesar enjoys a hallowed a place within popular imagination. With the...
Gabriel García Márquez has passed
Gabriel García Márquez, one of Latin America’s most widely read and beloved authors, has died today. El Gabo, as he was known to everyone, had strong links to Venezuela. Born...
XXIst Century Eco-socialism
A few days ago Miguel Rodríguez, the Environment Minister, leading a march toward Miraflores, said this: “Let’s put on a great national demonstration to show the indignation that is...
"¡Aquí fue!"
“I haven’t had tenderloin in two years.” I’m having lunch with Leticia and her husband Gonzalo in an upscale Santiago beef restaurant. I don’t know them very well, but...
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